BRUNI: Everyone in the book, whether the person is someone whom I knew for a long time and had never really kind of talked to in the way I began to or whether it was someone I met and questioned in a way I wouldn't have before, everyone had been dealt some sort of hardship, challenge or setback well before old age, but in a way that sort of augured old age and had gone through that with grace, had adapted and had so much to teach me, had so much to teach anybody, but is never asked for that lesson.