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In reply to the discussion: The Pretty Little Hippie Chicks Are Grandmas Now. [View all]MadHound
(34,179 posts)However your epiphany about elderly people is one I discovered decades ago talking to women who were born around the turn of the twentieth century and later. Flappers, suffragettes, on and on. I've always found it interesting talking to older folks, to hear the tales they tell of their youth. My grandfather apparently was a wild child when he was young, playing the fiddle at dances in little Ozark backwoods dances and such, where they served bootleg alcohol and once in while had to deal with the "revenooers". My grandmother went to the St. Louis World's Fair, and had one of the first ice cream cones. My neighbor, way back when I was a small child, worked in the women's suffrage movement at the turn of the century, and had actually met Susan B. Anthony a few years before she died.
It is always cool to talk with older people, because they have wisdom and stories to pass on, and yes, as they talk, the years fall from them and you can see the young people that they once were.