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Article: Uncle Joe shares his very best day.(The Home Forum)
- Article from:
- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- September 13, 1999
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"What was the best day of your life, Uncle Joe?" I lean forward in my chair and push the tape recorder across the small table toward him. I'm recording the memories of my oldest living relative, while at a family reunion in my cousin's home. He won't let me use a camera.
"No pictures," he says, "I'd be too self-conscious!" He smiles. "I'm not so good-looking any more."
My uncle is 103 years old. "You look great, Uncle. Perfect!" And indeed he does. A certain rosiness underlies his finely lined fair skin, freshly shaved and lightly talced for the occasion. His iron-gray hair is neatly parted on one side and slicked back - a style he has worn all his ...