News Stories  What Improves With Age  Our memories may
deteriorate as we get older, but our HEARTS become wiser.  A
hundred years ago, life was harder, so people tended to erect a
hard crust around their emotions. Children died young, which led
to the emotionally cold and distant father--very common in that
era.   In the November 6th edition of the New York Times, David
Brooks quotes researcher George Vaillant as saying, "It was the
capacity for intimate relationships that predicted flourishing
in all aspects of these men's lives." But, thankfully, Vaillant
found--in what came to be called the Grant Study--that the
positive effect of having one loving relative, mentor or friend
could overwhelm the negative effects of the bad things that
happened.   If you've become wise--both in head and in heart--
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