About this episode

Melissa Bloom shares stories about her grandparents' life in a retirement community and reflects on the concept of paradise.

My grandparents lived in a retirement community called Century Village. My childhood joke was that you had to be 100 years old to live there. It’s not quite as funny now that I’m getting closer to the age where I could probably move in myself. They lived in a small two-bedroom condo overlooking a man-made lake. For them -- especially for my grandfather -- it was absolute paradise. Today I’m sharing a few stories about them and a little about paradise, too.

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