Flossie Lewis: 'Getting Old is a State of Mind'

"I'm 91. But I feel like I'm 15," says former English teacher Flossie Lewis, in PBS News Hour's "Brief But Spectacular" video on growing old with grace. Flossie seems like kind of a badass, and BroadMinded hopes (since we are also based in the Bay Area) to one day run into her on Piedmont, rocking the world from her walker or her wheelchair.

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