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To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me. It is the most-requested column I've ever written.

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Regina Brett
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 31
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Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.
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Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
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Baking happens with ingredients that last for months and come to life inside a warm oven. Baking is slow and leisurely.
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However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
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When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
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Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.
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No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
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As much as the Pulitzer is the hallmark of journalism, I think what I love the most is when somebody says they took my column and it's in their wallet. I have had people open their wallet and show me a corner of a column.
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Pope Francis is not only changing the face of the Catholic Church, he's challenging us to be the face of God in the world by seeing the face of God in the person we least expect to see it, including the person in the mirror.
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Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
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We've come a long way from having one land line that was forbidden to be answered during dinner. We had no answering machine, just a dad who barked, 'Who calls during dinner? If it's important, they'll call back.' He was right.
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If you're lucky enough to still have grandparents, visit them, cherish them and celebrate them while you can.
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Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
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Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
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It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
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