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30 LESSONS FOR LOVING: Advice from the Wisest Americans

30 Lessons for Loving trailer from Karl Pillemer on Vimeo.

01/28/15 - If a young person seeks counsel about love & marriage, who’s the best source for it? Probably not the internet, Dear Abby or even Dr. Phil . . . but elders, who can recount valuable experience with tenderness and insight. Join us for Wednesday’s Topical Currentswhen we speak with renowned sociologist and gerontologist Karl Pillemer, about his book, 30 LESSONS FOR LOVING: Advice from the Wisest Americans. That’s Topical Currents, Wednesday at 1pm.

After a chance encounter with an extraordinary ninety year-old woman, renowned gerontologist Karl Pillemer began to wonder what older people know about life that the  rest of us don’t. 30 Lessons For Living from Karl Pillemer on Vimeo:

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