Re: Lay on, Macduff...

Ehm, it's one thing for an old woman to be an old woman. It's another
thing for a 20-30 year old male or female to be an old woman :).

They're even more of an old woman than old women :).

I had one very old grandmother who was remarkable and another who was,
pitiably, an old woman.

Jim

Will Hochman wrote:

> >
> > Indeed. There's a surprising number of old
> > women to be found in both sexes.
> >
> > Scottie B.
>
> Sorry to be so sincere...I know much of what is posted is joking, but
> some of the best human qualities I've experienced, I have found in
> abundance in people Scottie might see as "old women." I had dinner
> last night with "E." She's 81. Her 92 year old husband, a brilliant
> man, is suffering from Altziemher's (sp) disease and spends his days
> in his park ave apt in a hospital bed uncertain about most things he
> perceives. The strength and wisdom of E was incredible. We played
> chess and she didn't give up. She doesn't walk well, she has no
> children and sick siblings, and she didn't complain to me, not once.
> E simply didn't lose her heart, head and spirit to the kinds of
> thinks that humble most of us. If I have a small fraction of what E
> has in her, I'm better for it and so are those who listen closely to
> the words and deeds of "old women." will
>
> PS: E lives at 1120 park ave...just a door or two away from where JDS
> used to live.
>
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