They met in a 1960s group house. Nearly 50 years later, they’re still roommates. [View all]

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Great story about friends growing old together.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/they-met-in-a-1960s-group-house-nearly-50-years-later-theyre-still-roommates/2016/01/29/3ef27e30-a5de-11e5-b53d-972e2751f433_story.html

There was nothing remarkable about them when they first began living together. Margaret Sugg moved into a Georgetown group house in 1967 that already included Nancy Fassett. A few years later, Barbara Fletcher joined them.

The part that amazes people: Almost five decades later, the three women are still roommates.

They’ve aged as a threesome, best friends in their 70s and 80s who continue to share their lives in a tidy brick duplex in Asbury Methodist Village, a retirement community in Gaithersburg, Md.

It’s a relationship that has cemented into something as solid as any marriage, or any family....