A Couple of Old Dudes Shooting the Breeze

On the left my Great-grandpa, John Guess, with William Slack.

Photo furnished by Jerry Lynee Treinen, Great-granddaughter of William Slack and Sarah Guess

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Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour.  With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.  ~Charles Dickens

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The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years.  Your body changes, but you don't change at all.  And that, of course, causes great confusion.  ~Doris Lessing

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Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.  ~Martin Buxbaum

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Sometimes age succeeds, sometimes it fails.  It depends on you.  ~Ravensara Noite
 

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