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Beloved Italian down but not out

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Beloved Italian down but not out

FINDS SECOND-WIND CAREER AT AGE 65
A hand-waving and exuberant Catholic, Will DeSanto is best known for two things: joyful mischief and faithful prayer. Though he’s a beloved “people person” who loves to encourage others, his …

Voice nearly gone, his life still speaks

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After a lifetime of passionate public speaking, former Twin Cities priest Terry Dosh would rather lose an arm or a leg than his voice. Yet this is the prized tool being stripped from him through …

Perky 95-year-old “instigator” ages well

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Though depression knocks at the door for many in dwindling Lake Lillian, Minnesota, where businesses and farms close regularly, feisty, faith-filled reformer and retired turkey farmer Gladys Bjur will have none of it.
At 95, Bjur …