Hasta La Gadget!

In his early 70s, author Daniel Klein saw his peers taking up jogging, studying new languages and wearing hormone patches to charge their libidos. Klein already harbored a few misgivings about the frantic striving of the “new old age” when a trip to the dentist prompted an epiphany.

“He said I had to get these implants over the course of a year [or] I would look older with denture plates …and my teeth would pop out once in a while,” Klein recalled. “And I thought, ‘what do I care if have a goofy old man smile? I am an old man!’”

Klein returned to the Greek village and philosophers he has visited for decades to discover authentic ways of aging. In his funny and wry account, “Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life,” he concludes that old age is a privilege to be savored, rather than a disease to be cured or a condition to be denied.

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