My three loved ones endured well past 80, for which we are grateful, but as usual, the ailments of aging won. So much can be revealed: Weight lost, people lost, innocence lost, ignorance lost, patience lost, apathy lost. I used to hug his thinning body and declare, “You look like you’ve lost weight.” He would counter, “And it looks like you found it.”He wasn’t being mean, just real. Besides, there is no established way to reveal that you have lost more than the combined weight of your children. One afternoon, I researched what happens to lost weight.

Source: Washington Post December 27, 2020 12:00 UTC