Madam, - When one becomes 70, one is invisible. It is a very strange fact of life. No one knows until it happens. How foolish of society not to harness the huge talent lying idle in the main. We senior lemons have the very useful abilities we always had, and enormous experience with it.
The State should make us useful to the country we love. In short bursts, we senior lemons are full of "know-how" and "cop on". Having a purpose is key to being healthy. Being is not about waiting for death (which is inevitable). Rather, it is being in the present moment, neither abandoned nor useless but doing our patriotic duty and giving of ourselves as always. - Yours, etc,
ALICE JOHNSON,
Merrion Village,
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Dublin 4.