You Can Only Get This Beautiful With Time

Mr. Rosenblatt’s forthcoming book is “More Rules for Aging.”

This is a love letter to all my old ladies. No, I’m not a swinger or a polygamist or in an age-appropriate polycule. Only one woman, Ginny, was kind and reckless enough to have me, 62 years ago, and she remains at the top of old ladies I’m crazy about. But there are others who have the grace and stature that only long years of hoping and striving — and living — can bestow.

Old ladies are wonders, winking lights in the universe, stars. Take my wife, who was the........

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