This week is a continuation of my annual anniversary column, which marks 24 years of writing Successful Aging. That’s 1,175 columns later. Readers shared their experience and advice covering over 35 topics.

Here are just a few of them.

Relationship with a robot. A 69-year-old widow had a five-day relationship with a robot. She wrote they had so much in common, communicating with texts, lovely emails and telephone conversations. They made plans to meet one another on his return from a business trip. This woman’s brother, through his work, had access to databases. Yes, this man did not exist; she was talking to a robot. “My family saved me just in time,” she wrote.

An efficient husband. Having retired five years before his wife, one husband decided to be helpful by doing the grocery shopp

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