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l-existence 'Golden Girls': four high college friends stay collectively in their 80s
Just name them Blanche, Dorothy, Rose and Sophia.

In California, a collection of 4 friends who have regarded each exceptional for the motive that excessive college are dwelling out the actual-existence dream of "The Golden Girls," the classic TV sitcom approximately pals residing collectively as older single ladies.

The 4 ladies -- Joan Harris, Elsie Webb, Sylvia Crane and Mary Grace Tassone -- all graduated from Mt. St. Mary's Academy in Grass Valley, California, within the mid-1950s.

For the beyond year, the four pals have lived collectively at Atria Senior Living, a retirement network positioned only some miles far from their excessive college.

 is very important to me to realize that I despite the fact that have these three awesome women round me."

Crane, a 1954 high school graduate, stated she and the alternative ladies knew every different well at Mt. St. Mary's Academy, a small, non-public college.

Sylvia Crane, left, and Joan Harris keep a category photograph from Mt. St. Mary’s Academy in Grass Valley, California.

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Upon commencement, she said they every went their separate methods, going onto have careers and raise households, which includes 12 youngsters a few of the four of them.

When Crane moved into Atria Senior Living in July from her domestic of sixty six years, she described a enjoy of consolation and joy at seeing her pals of 70-plus years accumulated over again.

 "It emerge as a nice feeling.""They have been exceptional faces in a extraordinary region, pleasant faces that I knew who they were, and I knew their backgrounds," Harris said. "I did now not have to offer an cause of anything that befell in my life, they already knew how many types of the world