“I just came back from class. I’m in a continuing education...

“I just came back from class. I’m in a continuing education program at a nearby college— it’s helping hold the Alzheimer’s at bay and keeping me out of the nursing home. Today was Genetics And Epigenetics. Tomorrow is French New Wave Film. Friday is Sociology and Religion. It’s where I get most of my socialization, too. It’s a bunch of widows and widowers like me.”
“Do you remember the saddest moment of your life?”
“When my wife told me she wanted to go to hospice.”
“Do you remember the greatest day you ever spent with your wife?”
“We took a cruise in Antarctica, and the weather was great, so the captain took us deeper than he normally goes, and we were floating among the icebergs, and the seals were laying out in the sun, and I remember both of us agreeing that it was the greatest day.”