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| She said, “Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?” I laughed and enthusiastically responded, “Of course you may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze. “Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked. She jokingly replied, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get married, and have a couple of kids…” “No seriously,” I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age. “I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she told me. After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake. We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months, we would leave class together and talk non-stop. I was always mesmerized listening to this “time machine” as she shared her wisdom and experience with me. Over the course of the year, Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she revelled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up. At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak at our football banquet. I’ll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to the podium. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said, “I’m sorry I’m so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I’ll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know.” *As we laughed she cleared her throat and began, “We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing".* *There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success.* *You have to laugh and find humor every day.* *You have got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die.* *We have so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it!* *There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up.* *If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don’t do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old.* *If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight.* *Anybody can grow older. That doesn’t take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding opportunity in change.* *Have no regrets. The elderly usually don’t have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets.”* She concluded her speech by courageously singing “The Rose.” She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives. At the year’s end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it’s never too late to be all you can possibly be . *REMEMBER, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY. GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL.* We make a Living by what we get, We make a Life by what we give .. Have a great life ahead...🌹💫🌹 500 words Chosen Title: Written for "The Whatever Contest."  "The Whatever Contest -- Closed for Now"  Word/Line Count: IN THE PROMPT, ONLY INCLUDE THE 1 TITLE YOU CHOOSE, NOT THE ENTIRE LIST. Perhaps you'll fine inspiration for a future story or poem among these titles posted by NaNo member, Across_the_Stars. Wordless Fires Roses on the Breeze Witch’s Winter Running Toward the Flames Lost in the Rune Woods Hidden In Your Twilight Love Like a Dagger A Crimson Queen Will Rise The Absence of Light The Silence that Breaks Us No Saviors, Only Wolves Abound The Splintered Throne January Rain Night Visions Winter Thunder on a Wild Wind Faded Daisies and Fallen Petals A Fortune in Stars The Twining of Faith and Fury Twice Charmed Monsters Live Forever After Hours Devil’s Playground The Dying of the Light Carry Her Mark All the Dreams We Lost In the Shadow of the Storm The Forsaken Will Ascend The Path of Thorns A Flame Awakened Yesterday’s Ashes Secrets in His Eyes Always Smoke Before Fire By Any Other Name Long Past the Gloaming Rebel Moon In the Name of Nothing Blowing Kisses After Under a Wicked Little Spell Tell Me Lovely Lies Burning Slow A Beautiful Contradiction The Boy with the Car The Prince Made of Starlight Starforged Letters Never Written Whispered My Devil Princess of Diamonds The Burned Queen The Cedarwood Throne She Tames the Storm Within a Single Breath Lady of the Ashes Assassin’s Bride Origins of Blood and Ink Tiny Jagged Pieces of Us Killer’s Song Lord of Bones I See You in the Stars Blade of a Pale Moon These Savage, Shadowed Streets Once Upon a Darkness Between Dreams and Duty Games with a Devil Children of the Void In the Dead of December Intimate Strangers A Breath Beyond Redemption Unhealed Wounds Winter’s Wish A Storm of Light Moonlit Defiance Draw Myself to You Bridges Up in Smoke The Ruined Angel Disarm You If It’s Over, Kiss Me Traitor’s Magic. 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