Making an Investment in Friendship Can Pay Off in Your Old Age!
When I was twenty-two, I was befriended by a woman named Doris
who was thirty years older than I was. Although Doris was then a
fifty-two year old woman, she did not feel it was inappropriate
to befriend me.
She did not operate with the social belief that she should
choose her friends only from people her own age. We became very
close friends and remained so until her death at the age of
eight-two.
When Doris turned seventy-five, she was already widowed. The
week she turned seventy-five, Doris threw two birthday parties
for herself, one on a Wednesday night, and one on Saturday. Over
thirty different people attended each party. I was the only
person invited to both. In all, about seventy of Doris