This elderly gentleman is making a card for his wife, which illustrates something written by the great historian, Will Durant:

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that and old man has for his old wife. 

Or, as Oliver Wendell Homes, Sr. once wrote:

Don’t ever think that poetry is dead in an old man because his forehead is wrinkled, or that his manhood has left him because his hand trembles. If every they were there, they are there still. 

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Before re-entering the mundane, consider this image and these quotes; then try to see old people in a new light; Their bodies may have changed, but what’s inside them may be far more interesting, far more potent and surprising, than you’ve imagined. They are worth knowing well.

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