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I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life--And, if God choose, I shall love thee better after death. Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Winter evenings are often spent playing dominoes together. I often play with them and they tease me that if I beat them they will cut me off from serving me the beans they know I love.

Anna gives her grandson Jeff a kiss after the game. His team won and he was the high scorer. Anna says that if she had it to do over again she thinks she would like to be a cheerleader.

Sitting between her niece and her daughter-in-law in the high school gymnasium, Anna enjoys her grandson's game.

Anna, preparing to go to her grandson's basketball game, braids her hair as she always has since she was a girl.

Anna and Flander congregate with their children to celebrate Flander's 80th birthday. All the children live within 25 miles of their parents.

Faith in God runs deep in Anna and Flander. Each night before going to bed, they sit together to read the Bible and pray.

The church is a very important part of Anna and Flander's life. It serves as their place of worship and as focal point of their social lives.

Flander helps Anna with some hard-to-reach hooks as they get ready for Wednesday prayer meeting.

A warm spring day brings out winter long johns for a dose of sunshine. Anna and Flander's mode of dress can be appropriately described as comfortable.