Posted AT 12:00 AM EDT on 31/01/07
Age of adventure
There wasn't a lot of time or money for travel when Velma Beare, along with her late husband Tom, was raising three kids and helping with their higher education. Now it's hard to find the Burlington, Ont., woman at home.
Last year the great-grandmother and former legal secretary took one of her adult daughters on a Mexican cruise and the other one to Italy and Germany.
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