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Larry Miller Through the Years

“An article appeared in the local newspaper describing grandparents as present givers. It not only mentioned toys as possibilities, but cited some grandparents who have given cars or college education funds or money to start a business to their grandchildren. Are these the kinds of things our grandson's friends are getting? It makes the aluminum baseball bat we were thinking of pale by comparison.”
— June 1986

“I will continue to take my blood sugar levels because doing that is an important part of my diabetes care program, but I'll be darned if I am going to call it a 'finger stick.' I'll just keep calling it what I always have, 'A pain in the … finger.'”
— April 1994

“Beginning at age 100, and for the rest of their lives, people would be known as Super Seniors. They would take their places beside Superman, the Super Bowl and Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious as the ultimate in what they are, what they do and what man can be. Although the truth is that I have never heard of a Califragilisticexpialidocious which wasn't super.”
— May 1997

“Friends still call and ask if I'm eating. I never was one for missing meals, and that hasn't changed. The way I see it, Flossie is still taking care of me. … The freezer has enough meat and fish in it to go into competition with a supermarket meat department.”
— February 1998

“After three days in a hospital which is so old and dilapidated that it must have been built before hospitals were invented, I was transferred to a convalescent home for the rest of my treatment. As far as I'm concerned, it was the hospital which should have been transferred to the convalescent home.”
— February 1998

“I thought of challenging my grandson to a game of Chinese checkers, but I was afraid that by the time he was through with me I might have lost my American citizenship.”
— January 2001

“A man of 60 can squire a woman of 20 and, except for some snide remarks by women of 60, no one pays all that much attention. According to the authors of this book, it is time that we apply the same standards in reverse. I have thought about it, but where am I going to find a woman who is 117 years old?”
— March 2001