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I will say, my long-lived folks are a source of inspiration. My father has out-lived his father and brother (it's the women who live into their late '90s) and this summer had surgery on both his cervical and lumbar spine for stenosis; he left a miserable marriage in his early 50's, married a woman he loved (but who was an absolute BITCH to the nth degree to us), cared for her through her illness and death from lung cancer, and lives alone now 11 hours' drive from where I live. I was with him for his surgery this summer. He now keeps on keeping on, determined to walk without a walker or cane, living alone. He doesn't regret his divorce, although he made mistakes at the time ... but now I'm older, I don't judge. I don't judge anyone.
Our family motto (British/Scottish) is: Freedom through adversity.
Maybe I need to take another trip back to Katrine and rumble around Scotland and feel my ancestors again.
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The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Ghandi 
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