Lessons from Alice

I often receive feedback and notes from readers – via email or Facebook. I love messages from people who read this column. Each one is appreciated.

Recently, however, I got something a little different from most. I received a handwritten letter from a kind woman named Alice, who is 96-years-old and in good health. Her doctor told her it’s likely she’ll live to be 100.

In her letter she told me a little about her family - children, grand children, great grandchildren and even great, great grandchildren. But the real reason for her writing was to request information about my late husband. She felt like she knew me through my columns and wanted to know more about him, because she cared on a human level.

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