Time flies when you’re having fun, but little did I ever think that we Cooper siblings would get so darn old!

That thought hit me like a ton of bricks this year when my three sisters and I could all call ourselves septuagenarians.

Seventy.

Who among us was really marking time all that closely, what with careers and families and other important things to occupy us?

Seventy!

Who would’ve thought that we would be still so very active, full of life and love of family. Still staying in touch and caring for one another. Still able to reminisce about our growing-up years, our wonderful family life with dad and mom, and much more.

I guess 70 just sort of snuck up on us. Hard to believe that we are no longer the precocious kids raised in a Jeffersonville, Indiana suburb by a homemaker mom and a World War II veteran dad who had a double career as an IRS auditor and a court bailiff.

Although we all reached Social Security age, our real-life version of That ‘70s Show was not destined to last. For on August 14, our eldest sibling Cindy (Sis) turned the big 8-0! Linda (Lin), our youngest, just turned 70 last year. Our sister Rosemary (Rose) and I, in our mid-70s, and Lin now have a bit of catching up to do to reach that octogenarian status.

Ahh, siblinghood, nothing quite like it.

Eighty… h-m-m-m. Kind of rolls off the tongue nicely, doesn’t it?!

By Ron Cooper ©2024