I'm sorry to hear about your dating letdown. At 80, have you learned to take it any better than you would have at 20? Or does it rather get worse? I hope not.
Thanks for sharing the video. I happened to have that show running on tv last night for the first time by accident, but I missed the little girl's performance. I only returned to see her being put through to the final (which she is undoubtedly going to win). So it was nice to see for myself that her success was justified (i.e. not purely based on cuteness factor but also actual singing talent). I just hope she doesn't go down the unfortunate route that so many child stars go these days!
I think things roll off my back in a lot shorter time than they used to. I can give them more and better rationales. But the essential disappointment seems just as strong. And underneath it all, I tend to think that I was making more of the friendship than was really there. After all . . . there isn't much room to 'run with it'.
Yeah, certainly true. But I still remember that old saw: Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Or: Nothing ventured, nothing gained. If I had failed to put a small personal ad (a freebie) in a paper when I was 64, I'd have missed out on the second best relationship (out of four) of my whole life.
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Thanks for sharing the video. I happened to have that show running on tv last night for the first time by accident, but I missed the little girl's performance. I only returned to see her being put through to the final (which she is undoubtedly going to win). So it was nice to see for myself that her success was justified (i.e. not purely based on cuteness factor but also actual singing talent). I just hope she doesn't go down the unfortunate route that so many child stars go these days!
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Thanks for asking, Lisi.
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The bad news is that nothing changes when you reach 80.
I think that's why my grandmothers aren't dating.
My sympathies; that stuff sucks at any age.
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