“Sounds like a plan, but you should persuade your grandfather to hold a party. You are only eighty once, and not everybody makes it that far in life. I made sure to make a big celebration out of my eightieth.

“I’ll have another one on my ninetieth. Well, you know what’s going to happen if I do live to a hundred.”

Grandma May was not even ninety yet, but she was already planning her hundredth birthday.

“With that positive mindset and health of yours, I’m sure you’ll live to be a hundred, Gra