My father is 82. He hikes two hours a day, goes to the gym three times a week. He only eats an apple from 2 p.m. and has been doing intermittent fasting for a long time without knowing what it is. He doesn’t drink alcohol. When he’s at the doctor’s for a check-up, he says: “I’d like the values too.” But my father also got the bathrooms mixed up in two similarly furnished houses next to each other during his last vacation, and for a moment he didn’t remember where he was. It shocked him. My mother later sat next to me crying and said: “Here we go.” She’ll be 80 soon. She’s just as fit as he is.
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