In Sabkyo, there seem to be a disproportionate number of old women (65+) to old men. For every elderly man you see there are at least 7 women. What's even more puzzling about this is that about a third of the old women have severe rickets, a vitamin deficiency which bows the spine, and none of the old men have it. So I asked my high-school class why there are so many more old women than old men and they said, "Because they're dead."
"Yes," I said, "I know they're dead, but why?" They held a short discussion in Korean and came to the philosophical conclusion, "Because they're just dead."
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James, it's because that's the way the world works for the most part. Allen King-an older comic-used to do a bit where he would go through the obituaries and read all the men's and inevitably (sp?) in the postings there would be the line: "mr so and so is survived by his wife...." Women can survive rickets, etc., men can't. 8-) Love ya marmee-Nonnie
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