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Henning: George Perles adored life, and those who made his so full

You would have been forgiven for wondering how, exactly, George Perles squeezed 85 years from his long, robust, and rollicking life.

He carried for decades way too many pounds. He ate lots of food that wasn’t a great deal healthier than the native Lithuanian dish he relished, kugelis, a cardiac-on-a-plate staple made with bacon, eggs, potatoes, and cream.

And he favored a drink or two, or maybe three if the company was right, and which might not have always been a routine tight to American Medical Association guidelines.