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#1 I began visiting six strangers who had lost something in 2015. I was fifty-five years old, and I had lost my marriage after nearly three decades. I was now living alone for the first time. I was the main caregiver for my eighty-six-year-old mother.
#2 I interviewed a variety of people, from the very old to the very young, to find out what life was like for them now....
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In 2015, journalist John Leland set out to meet members of America's fastest-growing age group: 85 and up. He anticipated learning of challenges, of loneliness, and of the deterioration of body, mind, and quality of life. But the elders he met took him in an entirely different direction. Despite disparate backgrounds and circumstances, they each lived with a surprising lightness and contentment. The reality Leland encountered upended contemporary...
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"Una obra inspiradora y emotiva, que nos hace reflexionar sobre el papel decisivo que jugamos en nuestra manera de afrontar la vida. A través de las vidas de seis neoyorquinos mayores de 85 años, el premiado periodista John Leland ofrece una visión transformadora de lo que implica envejecer y una inspiradora guía de bienestar. La práctica de la gratitud, la capacidad de asombrarse ante los pequeños milagros diarios y la habilidad de adaptarse...
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