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  • Wake up! Now is when you have energy left

    Nicolas Pena, National Hispanic Council on Aging|Mar 1, 2018

    Agueda González is Dominican, and though she is 83 years old, she says she feels 60 (and that's how she looks). A single mother, with a suitcase full of hope, she arrived in the United States more than 30 years ago. "I was 50 years old, another full life ahead and two beautiful children to be raised. Some friends told me, 'Agueda you are too old to start a new life in a different country,' and I answered them, 'It will be a new life, and it is just the beginning'." For 18 years she cared for...