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Norma Stanton: A Profile in Optimism and Hope

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  Norma Stanton photo by Annie Uyehara Norma Stanton: A Profile in Optimism and Hope By Annie Uyehara If you envision an 84 year old woman who lives alone as frail, lonely, and dependent on others, throw that thought away. At least when we're talking about Norma Stanton. She just had a double total knee replacement a few months ago. Who does that at any age? And she's walking around doing errands on her own. Norma has held tubas up long enough to roll the dents out of them; she still drives her lawnmower around in her big yard in the mountains, and cleans her large home by herself and drives 2-1/2 hours to see her daughter. "I'm a good old country gal," says the gregarious Norma, whose husband died 8 years ago. "I can pretty much do anything." She doesn't care if people call her a senior, elderly, an older adult. "The phrasing matters not a bit to me. I am what I am." She considers herself nothing special but she's a picture of resilien