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 You’d wonder why she didn’t give up already.

Eighty years old and on a new diet. There she was getting ready slipping on her slip-on shoes because “I can’t bend that far.” She’d laugh as she said it and out the doors of the seniors’ home she’d go. Where to? Weight Watchers.

She’d come back all electrified from the leaders’ speeches.

“I can’t believe how much they know today” she’d say. “No one talked like that in my time.”