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First off, HAPPY NEW YEAR!

So last night I had dinner with my lovely and amazing Great Aunt in Southeastern Pa (where I am from), who I call Zia. Zia is 80 and a hottie. Is there a better word choice for someone her age? She's been a widow for about seven years now & would like to find a companion. I told her that I don't think many men her age could keep up with her, and she shot back "I can slow down if you find one!" Seriously, she gets on her tractor and mows her 10 acres every year, tends an enormous garden, sews, cooks, reads, goes to Women In Black vigils, and paints & sketches. Every thing she does is artful. She is kind, smart and well-traveled. She would like to travel to Europe again. She's a longtime leftie & is in excellent health. She's tall and slim and the would-be suitors who've asked her out have all been younger. I think she would like a clever, charming, independent, healthy, attractive man with compatible interests and politics. My feeling is he should be younger, like maybe ten years. So...anyone out there know any wonderful and eligible 70 year old men?

Tomorrow we board a plane to return to Ca. It was good to see my family again after a year away, and it was also good to tour around the beautiful region where I was raised that continues to tug at my heart. Even with the trees bare and the ground muddy, I will miss the stone farmhouses & barns, the low-rolling fields and the narrow, bending, tree-covered roads. And, yes, I also miss the biting cold from time to time & the sound of rain and sleet on the roof.