“Bolgar, who fled Europe when Hitler entered Austria, was dressed smartly and looked beautiful, and not a day older than she did on my visit in 2008. Back then, she told me matter-of-factly, “I’ve lived through revolutions, famine, war. Things like that.” She also said she was “put on this earth to accomplish certain things” and “I’m so far behind, I can never die.”
At 102, therapist is too busy to stop working
This lady is incredible. She’s 102 and sees patients four days a week. On the fifth day, she teaches a class on the trauma of forced migration.
“What I grew up with was, if there’s an unmet need in the world, you try to meet it, and if there’s a problem, you try to solve it.”
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