My Aunt Sylvia was 100 on August 2. Her eyesight is virtually nonexistent due to effects of diabetes and macular degeneration, and her hearing is not very good, but she has all of her faculties and can discuss almost any subject. She was the youngest of six children and was only two pounds at birth. In 1914, few children of such weight survived but she did. She was born in New York, has three children, about 12 grandchildren, and several great-grandchildren. One of her strengths is the ability to think positively and not to let setbacks depress her. To her, the glass is always half full, not half empty. Her husband died of pancreatic cancer at age 65 about three decades ago. She also has a very supportive family and lives near her daughter in Massachusetts. She has been in a nursing home for more than a year because she had a heart attack and suffers from vertigo.