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   From: njmarsh@gmail.com   
      
   HVS  wrote:   
      
   > In a similar vein, my wife and I (aged 73 and 69; no children) have   
   > noticed that those of our friends who have fully embraced the   
   > traditional roles of grandparents in their 50s or 60s -- looking   
   > after the grandkids, playing the "really-really-old" role with the   
   > grandkids -- seem to have aged differently than friends without kids   
   > or grandchildren.   
      
   This is a bit of a family joke. I have relatives (both dead now, lived well   
   into their nineties) who were identical twins. They married sisters, who   
   were not identical but very similar. The two couples lived together, from   
   when they were married until they died.   
      
   By the time I arrived, there was not a problem telling them apart. One set   
   looked markedly older than the other set. Only one couple had kids…   
      
      
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   njm   
      
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