Rock-Stars-of-Aging-by-Marc-Middleton
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<strong>Rock</strong> <strong>Stars</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Aging</strong><br />
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driver? Got him. The world’s oldest showgirl, college baseball player,<br />
female Olympian, motivational speaker? Yes. Yes. Yes. And Yes.<br />
We’ve chatted with them all and we’ve thoroughly enjoyed every<br />
conversation.<br />
These were not academic, research-oriented, survey-type interviews<br />
because, frankly, centenarians don’t like those kinds <strong>of</strong> interviews<br />
and neither do we. Surveys are flawed. Research is biased. These<br />
were chats between friends. Conversations that were allowed to<br />
wander where the interviewees wanted to take them. Conversations<br />
that followed passions and revealed personality.<br />
We have interviewed hundreds <strong>of</strong> men and women who are or were<br />
too busy enjoying life to pay attention to society telling them that<br />
they’re supposed to be dying. These <strong>Rock</strong> <strong>Stars</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Aging</strong> are as<br />
diverse as any group could be but as we talked and as we listened,<br />
we learned. Many common denominators were revealed. This book is<br />
about those common threads. Threads that when woven together<br />
helped create not only a long life but, far more importantly, a life filled<br />
with passion and joy. A life without fear and regret.<br />
“Come to the edge, Life said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the<br />
edge, Life said. They came. It pushed them. And they flew.”<br />
-- Guillaume Apollinaire<br />
<strong>Rock</strong> <strong>Stars</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Aging</strong><br />
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