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Marriage at 87 has given my life more years of happiness

Rev Lewa with his then 59-year-old bride Phyllis at Masue African Brotherhood Church on October 17, 2015. [David Njaaga, Standard]

Rev John Lewa, 91, is a living testimony that old age with all its attendant glitches can be tamed into a near normal phase in life.

The nonagenarian, who goes about his daily chores unaided, reads the Bible without glasses and manually tends his farm, surprised many when he remarried at 87.

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