I'll bet she thrived to 81. How many descendants does she have?
No, she did not thrive.
I never added up the number of cousins I had and how many children they had.
My parents were both change of life babies and I don't remember my grandparents very well.
But based on what an abusive man my mom told me her dad was, NOBODY in that family thrived.
How my mom came out so well adjusted is beyond me.
Anyway, what little I remember of my grandmother was not a woman who had thrived but one who had endured.