The issue is lo tov heyos ha’adam l’vado, men and women are naturally incomplete by themselves– at any age. My grandmother remarried in her late sixties, to the man who was as doting a grandfather to me as any natural could be. And both my grandmothers were “of large stature”, the barbies of their day,when starvation was common, and nutritional history was part of a kalla’s yichus, and prognosis for motherhood and long life.
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