I’m not sure what the recipe is for longevity – not sure there really is one, but I was observing an elderly couple in JFK this morning and he was on the phone and everytime he said something, she’d say, “tell him ___”, and he didn’t flinch, he’d pepper his conversation with her fill-ins and what his own thoughts. I said to myself, self I said, that’s kind of nice. Beats “don’t finish my sentences,” or “do you want to talk to him?” – that kind of dick-like response that I have heard one too many times in my lifetime. <\/p>\n
They were a funny old couple – she finished the paper and he picked it up and said, anything worth reading, and she said no, not really. So he went and threw it away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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