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--h SECTION 2.PAGE20-PLAINDEALER HERALD. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19.1»»4 Divorce may be appropriate even for elderly Deadline is near for Circuit preaker grants By Carl Riblet Jr. , want to get a divorce from my wife. I've been manied to her for 47 years but I cmw stand another week with her. She doesn't love me and she Mid so. I love somebody else and I want to marry her. My neighbors and my two children who are grown up and married with ldds of their own, all slay that I am looney to a divorce and remarry at 68. I say, what's age got to do with it?"-Victor Be Wise! Trust your independent family optometrist with your vision care... He works directly for you. A message from the Illinois Optometry Association sponsored by Metroptic. Inc thought the company would pay hospital charges. We thought "hospital" ment all hospital confinement, not even thinking of the outpatient or inpatient business. I am so mad at what amounts to being cheated over a word that I want to go down on the street and yell "down with insurance companies. "--Velma G. A--Unfortunately, we tend to think that our insurance policies provide for all that we could wish and hope they will provide, and so we are habituated not to read all of the fine print and exclusions in a policy. Policies are written by insurance people and lawyers who gamble in each case that they won't have to pay, that the policy-holder won't have to make a claim on the _ If they lose, they want to easy. The policy paid what it said it would pay. • Velma didn't read the fine print. A lawyer friend of mine who has great experience with in­ surance companies, says that the average casualty policy is a maze of fine-print loopholes. He gave an exaggerated and fic­ tional example: "An 82-year- old woman with a certain kind of policy, must, to collect on it, have injuries from an accident that occurred exactly at high noon on a sunny day with no clouds while she was operating a power lawnmower on a grassy lawn that was clear of sticks and stones to jam the mower. Only in such a case can she collect. If you need information or help on problems of aging, write to Carl Riblet Jr., PX). Box 40757, Tucson, Az. 85717, with stamped self-addressed en­ velope. No identities are revealed. Any senior citizen, 65 years or older, who has not filed for the 1983 Circuit Breaker, is reminded by Lieutenant Governor Ryan that there is less than a month left before the deadline. All applications must be in by Dec. 31, or post marked prior to midnight on Dec. 31 in order to be eligible for this year's grants. Hie Illinois Department of Revenue will begin sending out 1984 forms in January. If there are any questions, Lieutenant Governor Ryan's Senior Action Centers can be contacted for answers or to send a 1983 Circuit Breaker form, if needed. Call toll-free 1-800-252-6585. : Business hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30a.m. to 4:30; p.m. Shop the Classifies A--Victor may do bifest to follow his heart if his present wife is in stable health and able to take care of herself. He, with alimony of course, has the same legal and moral rights that much younger people enioy as they pass in and outn&f the divorce mill. Most of us past 65 were brought up in a world where divorce was a scandalous path to happiness. But times nave changed. What was scandalous once is now ac­ ceptable. Marriage is said to be the greatest bargain in the world. Where else can one get a partner for a half century, through perpetuation of the species, and financial respon­ sibility through debt, all for a small fee at the marriage license window? Ahhh! The ; catch is that in a bargain somebody always gets the worst Zof it. Q--"At 68, curiosity gets the better of me sometimes and then I speak up and ask other ladies at bingo and bridge how old they are. Most of the time they give me an answer that I know is a lie because of how they look under a fancy hair-do and makeup. How can I figure out somebody's age without asking them outright or looking at their teeth, if they still have any of their own left?"- Katie Y. A--It's easy. Katie could ask the lady what "the charlston" was. If she answers that it was a dance step that kind of shook up the dancers.--the lady is no doubt past 70. Q--"This may seem to you to be a silly question At least my husband thinks it is silly. We live in summer on a lake that at certain times of the evening sends back an echo when you call out over the water. I say that an echo is like getting old. The echo always has the last , word, just like aging. My husband says that while aging is a good example of how those of us who are retired are always, getting an unwelcome last word, that least it is a last word that comes to one and all."--Bezie C. A--The counterfeit in the philosophy of Bezie's husband is that when the last word is an echo it Is the caller's holler come back to him. If he doesn't holler, nobody gets the last word. Q--"My husband and I had hospitalization and medical insurance with a Chicago in­ surance company for more than 20 years. We paid in a total of nearly $6,000 over the years with only a few piddling claims. Then I had my toe operating. Hie doctor said I needn't go into a regular room at the hospital but that I could spend only about six hours in outpatient care. Thinking it was a good idea to save money I was in outpatient before and after the operation. The company wouldn't pay the lousy $65 for outpatient care. They said the policy only covered inpatient care, which would have been much more. 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