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"It is feasible that you could live to be 100, I tell my mother who is now ninety\u2013and\u2013a-half. Oh, Debba, she says to me, because that is what she calls me in conversations like this. I don&amp;#039;t want to live to be 100. I know I say, but it is feasible. She fakes shooting herself in the head. Well, maybe it wouldn&amp;#039;t be so bad, I tell her. I find myself kind of warming to the idea, instantly romanticizing it into a movie. The two of us, blabbing away, for ten more years. And then I think, would I even be ready then? If it were up to me, would I try to stretch Mom&amp;#039;s lifeline to 110 and then 120 because I am afraid of ever letting go? I&amp;#039;m not going anywhere, she assures me, by reading my mind. Not anywhere soon, at least, she says. OK, no 100, I say. No 100, she says. But it is feasible, I say.  Then we change the conversation and start in on something else.  D.G. Fulford is the author of Designated Daughter: The Bonus Years with Mom, written with her mother Phyllis Greene. She is also the co-founder of TheRememberingSite.org. You can find her at DGFulford.com.  Photo credit: Marcia Smilack "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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