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Executive producer Norman Lear speaks at a 2019 panel in Los Angeles. (Getty Images)

My mother lived to be 91 years old, an age her mother did not see.

She smoked and was a worrier who had lived a simple life. She walked great distances to the store most days, even in the cold of winter and summer’s heat.