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When I discovered, to my dismay, that my aged great-aunt still climbed over the garden fence to visit her next-door neighbor, I asked her why she didn’t take the less dangerous route down the driveway and up the street.

“Look,” came her sharp reply, “I’ll be ninety-eight at the end of this year and I’m running out of time.”

Reader’s Digest, September, 1983, page 80