Sometimes after you leave, when I’m in bed at night, I start thinking about the charmed life I’ve had. With the ups, with the hardships, with no money, all of it. I had a charmed life. It hasn’t been so exciting or extraordinary but I had two wonderful children, grandchildren, daughter-in-law and son-in-law, a magnificent husband for 63 years. I’m telling you, I had the greatest life. If everybody’s life were like mine, this world would be at peace.
A 91-year-old woman named Jean (interviewed by Erica Kennedy)
It’s becoming more and more clear to me that life is just about that: to love and to be loved. If you have that, you don’t need anything else. And if you don’t have that, nothing else matters.
