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Aida



FORMAT  | Video + Stills

My wife's grandmother Aida recently came to live with us. She was ninety-nine when she arrived and we celebrated her as she turned one hundred.

We don't get this anymore — that much uninterrupted time with the people who already know how to live. We're too busy, too distracted, and then one day they're gone and we realize we never asked the right questions. So I pulled out my camera.

In her answers is wisdom no algorithm can replicate. How to close the door on a hard day. How to love someone for sixty years and mean it every morning. How to wake up at ninety-nine, do your exercises, and believe — completely, without irony — that the best is yet to come.

Having her so close — unexpectedly, entirely — what a gift.




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