96-year-old student graduates after surviving WWII and now a pandemic

People who are 90 plus years in 2020, have seen many challenges in their lives. We can learn a lot from their perseverance.

This week, Giuseppe Paterno stepped forward to receive his diploma and the traditional laurel wreath awarded to Italian students when they graduate, applauded by his family, teachers and fellow students more than 70 years his junior.

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Working Past Age 100

Bill Frankland (106) is probably the oldest active doctor on the planet. Frankland first trained as a doctor in the 1930s. During his long and illustrious career, he has become the world’s foremost authority on allergy. He worked with the Nobel Prize-winning discoverer of antibiotics, Alexander Fleming, and was once called out to Iraq to treat dictator Saddam Hussein.

Zaria Gorvett discusses how retirement is becoming more and more expensive and if future generations may have to abandon the idea altogether.

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Vito Perillo, A 93-Year-Old Veteran, Was Elected Mayor In New Jersey & The Internet Loves Him

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There were a lot of unlikely winners to come out of Election Day 2017, and perhaps the most unexpected of all is World War II veteran Vito Perillo. The 93-year-old beat incumbent New Jersey Mayor Gerald Turning in the town of Tinton Falls in a huge upset. And while the members of his town were clearly big fans of his, people on the internet clearly are, too. Read the Full Story

CBS News also picked up the story: 93-year-old WWII vet Vito Perillo wins Tinton Falls, N.J. mayoral race

Vito Perillo’s Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/vito.perillo.31

She’s 98. He’s 94. They Met at the Gym.

The New York Times
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This amazing story shows that it is never too late to love.

“Gertrude Mokotoff and Alvin Mann were introduced eight years ago at a gym in Middletown, N.Y., where they still work out twice a week.

…“I kept getting teased about dating a cougar,” Mr. Mann said, laughing. “But the age difference never really bothered me because we just hit it off, and I wasn’t about to let her go.”

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The Secrets of the 80-Year-Old Chinese Runway Model

By Michael Paterniti, GQ Magazine

The 80 year old Wang Deshun was featured at Fashion Week.

“… Wang went viral. Everything that ad agencies would love to have us believe—that eternal youth is possible—was right there before our eyes, in action. An 80-year-old on the catwalk, looking this fine? What was he eating? How did he keep in shape? Could we all look forever young? So came the lustful, leering commentary. What was Hottest Grandpa’s secret?” Read the full story

You May Want to Marry My Husband

The New York Times

After learning she doesn’t have long to live, a woman composes a dating profile for the man she will leave behind.

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“I have been trying to write this for a while, but the morphine and lack of juicy cheeseburgers (what has it been now, five weeks without real food?) have drained my energy and interfered with whatever prose prowess remains. Additionally, the intermittent micronaps that keep whisking me away midsentence are clearly not propelling my work forward as quickly as I would like. But they are, admittedly, a bit of trippy fun.

Still, I have to stick with it, because I’m facing a deadline, in this case, a pressing one. I need to say this (and say it right) while I have a) your attention, and b) a pulse.” Read the whole story

Update:

Author who wrote heartbreaking ‘dating profile’ for her husband dies
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal, the prolific children’s book author who wrote a devastating “Modern Love” column about her soon-to-be-widower husband, died Monday. She was 51. Read the full story