Oct

28

I sat next to a famous 97 year old singer yesterday at a Halloween party. She had sung with Danny Kaye, Red Skelton, Frank Loesser, Lucille Ball, Frank Sinatra and many others in her illustrious career. At the age of 30 she married a gynecologist and had 60 years of a beautiful happy marriage. A year before he died he was encouraged by friends at the club to invest with a dynamic investor who was guaranteed to take their money and give them a 10 fold return within 2 years. He was a famous new jersey ponzoist a la Madoff and she lost her entire wealth of 500,000 with him. Her husband went to the dentist to have a tooth pulled and woke up with a tooth ache that night. She took him to a hospital where he was told to take or get off Cumodin. The doctor kindly told her to go home for the night and an hour later they called her to tell her the beloved husband was dead. She lives in a rent controlled apartment and can't afford the rent after 50 years. It's worth 2 million but she can't get the landlord to buy her out of her lease. She said she'll marry someone much younger unless he does, but the prospective husband wants to put her away into assisted living so it doesn't work. She had a beautiful voice, was completely upbeat, and quite a bit more up to date and mobile than I. "I remember everything" she said and she did. I touched her for good luck as I do all centenarians.


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