Bob (at right), as he is remembered:
with a phone in one hand and
talking to you with the other
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I keep learning how to “be” each age that I reach. For one thing, I’m working with a dietitian now; you eat half of what you thought you were going to, and keep a record of it. It helps to be accountable to someone!

Another adjustment comes with having friends and neighbors pass away. It kind of hits you, the loss of all the ones that are gone. The way I found to survive was to start painting the person in their environment, where I was with them and the things we did. This has been very healing for me, doing something to remember who they were and what they meant to me.