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At 104, woman keeps good memories
BY KATHLEEN MOORE Gazette Reporter
Reach Gazette reporter Kathleen Moore at 395-3120 or moore@dailygazette.com.
The secret to living to 104 is all in the mind, Margaret Bashleben said at her century-plus birthday party on Saturday.
“Stay young at heart,” she advised. “I think it must be in your nature. Always see the best in people.”
Then she grinned.
“And if you find out they’re not the best, give them a kick in the pants!”
Bashleben still speaks with a thick German accent, despite immigrating to the United States at age 21 to join her fiance. They married the day after she arrived.
She said she wasn’t at all nervous about moving to a foreign country.
“At your age, you do a lot of things,” she said. “I knew what I was doing. I was looking forward to it.”
Once here, she joined a German singing society and met a fellow immigrant who was desperate to get out of her aunt’s one-room fl at. Bashleben invited the woman to move in. The friendship changed Bashleben’s life.
Bashleben never had children, and at 104, all of her blood relatives on this side of the Atlantic are dead.
But she has a loving, devoted set of almost-children, and now a growing set of almost-grandchildren, thanks to her friend, who invited Bashleben to be an honorary mother. ...................>>>>.....................>>>>.................................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01300&AppName=1
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The secret to her longevity is explained in the line: "Bashleben never had children," Kids will kill ya if you let them!
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| ...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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ROTFLMAO. Ain't it the truth. Anybody here ever get the mother's curse, "I hope you have five kids just like you?" Well I had SIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There isn't enough hours in the day to say the amount of novenas and rosaries to take care of this group! |
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The secret to her longevity is explained in the line: "Bashleben never had children," Kids will kill ya if you let them!
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ROTFLMAO. Ain't it the truth. Anybody here ever get the mother's curse, "I hope you have five kids just like you?" Well I had SIX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There isn't enough hours in the day to say the amount of novenas and rosaries to take care of this group!
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| ...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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