My great-grandaunt Bert lived to 103. Aunt Marge made it to 95. My father hit 89. My family suffers longevity well and at 68 I can still beat some teenagers at basketball, so I suspect that I’m headed for a ripe old years in full control of my diminishing facilities and if so I hope to age much like Rita Levi-Montalcini.
Nine Aprils ago the Italian Senator for Life and Nobel Prize winner celebrated her 100th birthday. She arrived at the event honoring her decades of achievements in an stunning navy-blue dress. The ageless beauty had been banned from academia by Mussolini. T
After the Nazi invasion of 1943 her family fled Rome to Florence, while she discovered the truth about nerve fibers in a bedroom lab hiding from the SS.
Years later Senora Montalcini told her admirers. “Above all, don’t fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.”
True words,because you never know where the road will lead as long as you stay forever young no matter what your age.