For the past year I have been meeting with my old lady friend. Her name is Mariam and she is 83. She goes to my church. She lives by herself in a house. She still mows her own lawn, and does her own mulching. Really she is amazing. Spunky as ever. She makes me chicken salad with pickles and hot earl grey tea in a pretty tea pot each time we meet. Another reason I admire Mariam is the fact that she is stubborn. The other day she needed a lead pipe that was apart of a former water pump in her backyard removed. Someone was supposed to come and do it for her but never made it. So one day she got out her handy hacksaw and sawed through 1 inch lead piping, and 1/2 re-barb. She proudly showed me the scar on her thumb as proof of her hard work. I was like, awesome. I hope I am as a cool as Mariam when I grow up