Today is my wife's birthday. She is 85, which is an age that shows longevity but she shows no signs of being over 82. She has always been a little different in many ways, starting with an unusual mix of ancestors.
https://inktank.fi/10-fun-facts-finns-dont-know-about-finnish-americans/
Having Finnish ancestors is just the start. Her Cuban grandmother had a sister who dated a Swedish miner posted in Cuba to aid in mine construction. When he proposed, the prospect of living in upper Michigan without any company motivated the woman to ask her sister to accompany her. Thus, my wife has Cuban ancestors.
Later in life, she and two other passengers survived an accidental head-on crash that killed the driver of her car but left the others unharmed. Still later, she earned a PhD in library science and taught university classes. She did this just as computers were penetrating society and the World Wide Web was being born. She is a rocket I am lucky to be connected to.
