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> I don't want to live to 100, at nearly 75 there's no one alive I knew
> other than two in nursing homes who no longer remember me... everyone
> I knew growing up is long gone. There are a couple of kids and grands
> but we really have no meaningful history, they've moved on in their
> own lives, which is healthy and as it should be. I can remember when
> I was young having grand parents and great grand parents but we hardly
> got to know each other more than superficially and then they were
> gone. I feel very lucky to be sharing a life with a woman close to my
> age. We both enjoy living here, with all our cats, gardening, and
> tenderly caring for this piece of land and each other. We've been
> very happily married 26 years and feel very lucky to have found each
> other. Who'd a thunk a Brooklyn boy and a Belizean woman would mesh
> so well. I really don't want to outlive my wife.

I was lucky, I grew up with extended family living with us, grandma, uncle,
and six brothers and sisters. We have been very close our whole lives, but
now there are only four of us left, two brothers and one sister all dying
within the past five years. It has been really hard, but I can't even
imagine outliving my dh. Luckily his family is very long lived.

Cheri