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Article: By staying healthy, parents give a gift of great value.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- November 19, 2003
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Byline: Karin Winegar
Our parents have given us a gift: not our health, but their health. I have come to recognize this as one of the greatest and rarest bequests, something to be deeply thankful for.
At 82, my father may be the oldest practicing chiropractor in the country. There is mastery there, and what makes it possible is Dad's own health.
Mom runs a community theater and teaches yoga - at 78.
"Those young women in their 20s come to class, and they can't do a damn thing!" Mom says. Then she gets down on the living-room floor with her 10-year-old granddaughter, and they try to outdo each other in stretches.
Because my ...