Gravity has taken effect. We're sagging here and there. These were my contemporaries in terms of age. Neither do I. Third, the father of one of my best friends, who is a widower recently made contact with a woman he hadn't seen for over 40 years. He and this woman are now talking on the phone every evening and seeing each other whenever they can.
Romance is in the air.
I'm sure she feels the same. Forty years will do that to you. Aging and death seem sad from the standpoint of those of us still living. When we age, we are sometimes unable to do what gave us so much pleasure in the past. We can't take the ball to the hoop like we did, we can't run as long barefooted on the beach, we perhaps can't play that rock guitar with such passion.