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July Housing

I’m young in my senior living community

When I was a boy, I worked at an “old folks’ home” in the Tenley Circle neighborhood of Northwest Washington, D.C. The “old” people at what’s now Seabury at Friendship Terrace were fun and mellow. I liked that they didn’t have the cares and woes of the workaday world. I found that old people are young people who aged — some better than others.

By James Vandeputte July 7, 2026 3 min read
I’m young in my senior living community

When I was a boy, I worked at an “old folks’ home” in the Tenley Circle neighborhood of Northwest Washington, D.C. The “old” people at what’s now Seabury at Friendship Terrace were fun and mellow. I liked that they didn’t have the cares and woes of the workaday world. I found that old people are young people who aged — some better than others.

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