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Page 6 SENIOR REPORTER Online@www.Sunset-Publishing.com FEBRUARY 2012<br />
Living Alone and Liking it<br />
By Susanna Starr<br />
When I returned<br />
to New York,<br />
after 33 years,<br />
to attend a wedding<br />
with my<br />
daughter, we<br />
were invited to<br />
stay with the<br />
one and only<br />
friend from<br />
those times that<br />
I had kept in contact with. She<br />
had visited me some years ago,<br />
and we had been in contact<br />
ever since.<br />
Jennifer was excited to know<br />
that we were planning on being<br />
in New York and enthusiastically<br />
and generously<br />
offered to pick us up at the<br />
airport on Long Island, take<br />
us to her home for a couple of<br />
nights and then send us off on<br />
the Long Island Railroad to the<br />
city where we would spend the<br />
next couple of days.<br />
<strong>The</strong> trip turned out to be so<br />
much better than I had anticipated<br />
and being back in a oncefamiliar<br />
environment was<br />
sweet. Having Jennifer pick<br />
us up when we returned from<br />
our city trip, taking us back to<br />
her house,<br />
meeting old<br />
friends for<br />
dinner, and<br />
then taking<br />
us to<br />
the airport<br />
the followingmorning<br />
was so<br />
supportive.<br />
And she smiled all the way<br />
through the visit, interspersed<br />
with laughter and good humor.<br />
Yes, being with Jennifer was a<br />
delight, but equally as delightful<br />
was seeing the life she had<br />
created for herself. Divorced<br />
from her husband for many<br />
years, she was completely relaxed<br />
and satisfied with the<br />
way her life had unfolded and<br />
with the decisions she had<br />
made.<br />
A former librarian, she was<br />
still actively involved with<br />
the library in her small town<br />
where she also worked as a<br />
volunteer. She lived practically<br />
in the center of this charming<br />
North Shore town located on<br />
Long Island Sound, which was<br />
quaint and attracted tourists as<br />
well as providing ferry trans-<br />
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portation across the Sound to<br />
Connecticut. Her house was<br />
small and easy to maintain and<br />
she had close-by access to the<br />
railroad when she wanted to<br />
visit her children in the city.<br />
Every year she traveled with<br />
friends to a different part of the<br />
world and seemed to thoroughly<br />
enjoy these trips. Another<br />
avid reader, she had lots of<br />
time to pursue her most enjoyable<br />
interest. It’s hard to think<br />
of her except for a smile on her<br />
face and laughter in her voice.<br />
She’d like to lose weight but<br />
feels that giving up her smoking<br />
habit was more important<br />
to her health.<br />
Of all the people I know, she<br />
seems to have eliminated the<br />
word “stress” from her vocabulary.<br />
Now, isn’t that a gift!!<br />
Susanna Starr is the author of<br />
“Fifty and Beyond: New Beginnings<br />
in Health and Well-<br />
Being.”<br />
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