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With a humorous outlook, Jacqueline Becker takes on aging and its effects on every aspect of her life. From family and personal health to dead friends and the question of an afterlife, no topic is off limits in this down-to-earth book. Author will donate 18% of her royalties to Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital for cancer research. Addressing the contradictions of aging, Becker writes about struggling to feel valued as her role as the matriarch of the family slowly transitions from her to her daughter while she watches her daughter flourish as a parent. She discusses her husband's refusal to acknowledge their shared situation and not being able to talk to the one person who should sympathize the most. And she delves into her medical conditions and her struggle to stay on her toes - despite eight hammertoes.