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A minister who interviewed her oldest congregants about their biggest life regrets was surprised by some of their answers. “Do you wish you had accomplished more?” the Rev. Lydia Sohn asked one man. “No, I wished I loved more,” he responded.

The elders thought their most stressful years, filled with work and family, were also the most fulfilling. So one thing Sohn now asks herself is: What will I miss about this time of my life when it’s all gone? “Then all of a sudden, things become so much more wonderful,” she said.

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