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Juan and Imelda Calderon in El Paso, Texas October 4, 2019. Imelda, who suffers from dementia, went missing in November 2018 when she slipped away from her husband at a store and then somehow made it across the Mexico border in Juarez.
The Sun City Poms
Ryan Gosling
Purple Woods, 78, poses for a portrait in her yard in Sun City, Arizona October 4, 2020.

Purple is a self-proclaimed “jack of all trades and an absolute master of nothing except dance.”

Before the pandemic shut all the dancing clubs down, Purple was dancing four nights a week. And now she hasn’t gotten to dance since St. Patrick’s Day.

“That’s the reason I came down here [to Sun City]. In fact, in ’05 when I had cancer, I said, Lord, I don’t mind if I go through all this chemotherapy but if I can’t dance after, I don’t wanna live.”

“It’s like I was born to dance. My mom was a piano player and I bet you when she was playing the piano, I was kicking in there. I was born dancing.”

Purple has neuropathy in her feet now, but she says she has no trouble on the dance floor.

“I’m very upset that I can’t be dancing. I miss it tremendously.” She tries to keep busy right now by catching up on organizing and paperwork and pruning her yard.

“I was on one of the bushes in the corner. It is purple sage and I was working on that bush. And I always have music going and there was a cat on that wall over there. And I said, I wanna get up and dance to that. After the music stopped playing, I bowed to the cat and said, thank you so much for being my audience.”

“It’s been difficult, but I take it out when I’m pruning the trees.”
Weird Al Yankovic
Young Thug
Young Thug for FADER
David Walter Banks
Curtis Hay, 87, plays pool at one of the rec centers with a 96-year-old a couple times a week and “as a matter of fact I won all the games today, but one,” he said. He has lived in Sun City with his wife for 20 years now and said it has everything. He sits in his golf cart in his Sun City driveway.
Perfume Genius, for Huck
Perry Fisher is working with Attorney Peter Borenstein to try and reclaim money allegedly stolen by his former attorney when he was incarcerated.
For The Marshall Project
Danielle Gandy poses with her two daughters Madison Jacquette (left), 15, and Cadynce Hines, 6, outside of their Los Angeles, CA home on May 30, 2020.
Kelly Clarkson
Mom
Robby Redar, Long Beach
For ProPublica
Elaine Welteroth
Margaret and Corey
Jim, 66, and his husband Howard, 68, have been a couple for 42 years this September. They moved to Sun City 10 years ago.
Recently blessed uncooperative cats become entertainment for the congregation of the All Saints of the Desert Episcopal Church as they make their way back to their pew with their owners during the annual blessing of the animals.
Velta Larson and Gene Limbacher pose between round dances at Social Hall No. 1 during a square dance and round dance night in Sun City, Arizona December 8, 2009. The dancing pair are not married but have been dancing together for 16 years.
Thundercat
Singer, songwriter, producer, musician Thundercat in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
I met Larry at his cousin’s funeral December 11, 2010. Monte, 70, had died crashing an ultralight plane that he had just learned to fly. (The crash site was located by the giant plume of dust and smoke that billowed out of the desert sand into the sky.) I was sitting on the ground on the tennis court Monte had played at every day in Sun City, with my camera aimed upwards, just moments before all the mourners sang in unison and released colorful balloons into the sky. Larry bent over and said, “Hi, who are you and who are you taking photos for?” I told him TIME Magazine and he was impressed. It was my third trip back, and TIME had commissioned my return. Larry still tells every single person he introduces me to this story about my working for TIME at his cousin’s funeral. It makes me blush every time, but I love that he tells it because it feels like one of those proud dad moves. Last visit last year, Larry’s Jeannie told me about discovering she had a brain tumor — by watching an episode of Dr. Oz, believe it or not. The longer I’m away, the more anxious I become that something might have happened to them, and then, luckily, in their next email I find that they are fine and hope I will visit soon.
Jeannie always has cookies or brownies for me when I visit and we shared cookies and mango in their backyard in Sun City this weekend. Larry asked Jeannie if they should show me the new shirts they had made and I interrupted and said yes! So they went in and changed tops and came back out and unveiled this sweetness. Larry and Jeannie started dating (if you can call it that) when they were in second grade, in 1950.
Clay Hess poses for a portrait between matches at the 2022 Humana Seattle Metro Pickleball Classic at Shoreview Park in Shoreline, Washington.
Billy Bob Thornton
Will Ferrell for The New York Times
Marilyn, 76, and John Richling, 73
Perry Fisher is working with Attorney Peter Borenstein to try and reclaim money allegedly stolen by his former attorney when he was incarcerated.
For The Marshall Project
Snoop Dogg + Martha Stewart
Lindsey Vonn
Aga Maru
Conan O’Brien
Julia Whelan, actor and voice actor
For The Lily
Christine Lahti
Quarterback Baker Mayfield for ESPN
Julia Roberts
LaKeith Stanfield For The Washington Post
Artistic duo FriendsWithYou are Samuel Borkson (left) and Arturo Sandoval III.
For The New York Times
Little Mr. and Miss Groundhog crowning ceremony at Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania following Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction for a longer winter.
Audrey Jean Johnson, 5, and David Kunselman, 6, were crowned
The ringmaster
Lindsey Vonn for TIME
Emma
A woman steps out of the Saturday night Classic Rock Dance Club at Fairway Recreation Center in Sun City
Bobby Cannavale
Tanaïs is a novelist and she also created Hi Wildflower, a beauty and fragrance brand.
The Fountain of Youth Spa and RV Park’s 50th Anniversary Parade in Niland, California.
The first annual Howl-O-Ween Dog Costume Parade at the Duffeeland Dog Park in Sun City.
Grace Zabriskie
Thomas Goett’s driveway is lined with plastic reinder. “My wife back up and ran him over,” he said of the broken one.

Coal-fired smokestacks can be seen from just about anywhere in Cheshire, Ohio. The village, which is along the Ohio River, has a population that is a fraction of what it was just years before. The schools sit empty with locked doors. In 2002, the American Electric Power Company settled with citizens over an investigation in pollution and the consequences it had on the residents. The power plant had a $20 million buyout and most of the more than 200 residents sold their property and left. Still, some residents remain in Cheshire today.
The Sun City Poms for AARP
Olaf Breuning’s smoke bomb installation
Sara and Erin Foster
Sisters Sara and Erin Foster
For The New York Times
Rapper Ca$h Out in Atlanta
For FADER
Daye Bjornholm, 7, and her dog Sky wait alongside Daniel DeBellis while people play pickleball at the Founders Courts on Bainbridge Island, Washington July 19, 2022. It was only Daniel’s second time playing the sport and he was icing his ankle after playing and hearing an ominous pop in his ankle. Clay Roberts and Bill Walker raised the funds for the courts. “We put out the word and raised about $200,000 to build these courts,” Roberts said. “This is such a generous community.” About 1500 people play there every month. “I thought we were building pickleball courts but we were building community.” Photo by Kendrick Brinson
On the set of DJ Khaled’s “No New Friends” video with Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, and Drake directed by Collin Tilley at Chateau Artisan outside of Miami, Florida.
Gillian Anderson + David Duchovny
Allie Van Why, Chugwater, Wyoming
Elena Turner poses for a portrait at her family home in Costa Mesa, California. She is spending her COVID quarantine from college at her family home.
Purple Woods, 77, poses for a portrait at the Sun City Senior Prom at Sundial Auditorium in Sun City, Arizona March 6, 2020. The theme was The Roaring Twenties and the flyer said “The Roaring 2020’s that is!”
As she walked in the entrance completely drenched in purple from head to toe (even a pillow, water bottle and bag she carried were purple), I was enamored with her—her spirit, her energy, the way she moved, how she said her one regret was never jumping out of a plane with a parachute so she could feel what it was like to float so effortlessly and how she cannot wait to go to heaven to dance on the clouds there.
Young Thug
Ryan Seacrest
Rappers walk a line that straddles struggle and fantasy, and fame.
Long hours late at night in a studio pay off for some.
Until then, success is projected through chains and rhymes.
This is a peek into both the projection and the reality.
Food truck, East Dublin, Georgia
Elvis Week and another Elvis sighting
Mindy Kaling
Allie Van Why flips her hair as she waits to run to second base during a tee ball game in Chugwater, Wyoming. Chugwater’s population is just under 300 people.
A swine competition at the Lincoln County State Fair in Troy, Missouri
Bluesman, Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Gordon Parlova and Debbie Webb dance at the annual Sun City Senior Prom at Sundial Auditorium in Sun City, Arizona March 6, 2020. The theme was The Roaring Twenties and the flyer said “The Roaring 2020’s that is!”
Petya and Viktoriya, who are acrobats from Bulgaria, have a unique act where they hang from their hair and spin. There’s no trick to the act, although they both spray their hair wet to make it hurt a little less. Viktoriya is married to one of the show’s motorcycle stuntmen, Andrey Medeiros, and the two have a three-year-old son.
Pedro Carillo, flexes his muscles, before heading into the ring to walk across the high wire with the Toprasta Troupe, from Colombia. Carillo was born in 1947 to a Colombian cowboy. He has been walking across the wire for more than 40 years. He performs the three-tier, 7-Man Pyramid on the High Wire with his troupe for the Cole Bros. Circus.
Jeannie and the tangerines in Sun City
Balloons are released by family and friends, including his youngest sister Janis Schewe (center, blonde), at the memorial service for Sun City resident Monte Haag, who moved to Sun City in 2000 and died in a crash flying an ultralight plane outside of Sun City.

Juan and Imelda Calderon in El Paso, Texas October 4, 2019. Imelda, who suffers from dementia, went missing in November 2018 when she slipped away from her husband at a store and then somehow made it across the Mexico border in Juarez.
The Sun City Poms
Ryan Gosling
Purple Woods, 78, poses for a portrait in her yard in Sun City, Arizona October 4, 2020.

Purple is a self-proclaimed “jack of all trades and an absolute master of nothing except dance.”

Before the pandemic shut all the dancing clubs down, Purple was dancing four nights a week. And now she hasn’t gotten to dance since St. Patrick’s Day.

“That’s the reason I came down here [to Sun City]. In fact, in ’05 when I had cancer, I said, Lord, I don’t mind if I go through all this chemotherapy but if I can’t dance after, I don’t wanna live.”

“It’s like I was born to dance. My mom was a piano player and I bet you when she was playing the piano, I was kicking in there. I was born dancing.”

Purple has neuropathy in her feet now, but she says she has no trouble on the dance floor.

“I’m very upset that I can’t be dancing. I miss it tremendously.” She tries to keep busy right now by catching up on organizing and paperwork and pruning her yard.

“I was on one of the bushes in the corner. It is purple sage and I was working on that bush. And I always have music going and there was a cat on that wall over there. And I said, I wanna get up and dance to that. After the music stopped playing, I bowed to the cat and said, thank you so much for being my audience.”

“It’s been difficult, but I take it out when I’m pruning the trees.”
Weird Al Yankovic
Young Thug
Young Thug for FADER
David Walter Banks
Curtis Hay, 87, plays pool at one of the rec centers with a 96-year-old a couple times a week and “as a matter of fact I won all the games today, but one,” he said. He has lived in Sun City with his wife for 20 years now and said it has everything. He sits in his golf cart in his Sun City driveway.
Perfume Genius, for Huck
Perry Fisher is working with Attorney Peter Borenstein to try and reclaim money allegedly stolen by his former attorney when he was incarcerated.
For The Marshall Project
Danielle Gandy poses with her two daughters Madison Jacquette (left), 15, and Cadynce Hines, 6, outside of their Los Angeles, CA home on May 30, 2020.
Kelly Clarkson
Mom
Robby Redar, Long Beach
For ProPublica
Elaine Welteroth
Margaret and Corey
Jim, 66, and his husband Howard, 68, have been a couple for 42 years this September. They moved to Sun City 10 years ago.
Recently blessed uncooperative cats become entertainment for the congregation of the All Saints of the Desert Episcopal Church as they make their way back to their pew with their owners during the annual blessing of the animals.
Velta Larson and Gene Limbacher pose between round dances at Social Hall No. 1 during a square dance and round dance night in Sun City, Arizona December 8, 2009. The dancing pair are not married but have been dancing together for 16 years.
Thundercat
Singer, songwriter, producer, musician Thundercat in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles
I met Larry at his cousin’s funeral December 11, 2010. Monte, 70, had died crashing an ultralight plane that he had just learned to fly. (The crash site was located by the giant plume of dust and smoke that billowed out of the desert sand into the sky.) I was sitting on the ground on the tennis court Monte had played at every day in Sun City, with my camera aimed upwards, just moments before all the mourners sang in unison and released colorful balloons into the sky. Larry bent over and said, “Hi, who are you and who are you taking photos for?” I told him TIME Magazine and he was impressed. It was my third trip back, and TIME had commissioned my return. Larry still tells every single person he introduces me to this story about my working for TIME at his cousin’s funeral. It makes me blush every time, but I love that he tells it because it feels like one of those proud dad moves. Last visit last year, Larry’s Jeannie told me about discovering she had a brain tumor — by watching an episode of Dr. Oz, believe it or not. The longer I’m away, the more anxious I become that something might have happened to them, and then, luckily, in their next email I find that they are fine and hope I will visit soon.
Jeannie always has cookies or brownies for me when I visit and we shared cookies and mango in their backyard in Sun City this weekend. Larry asked Jeannie if they should show me the new shirts they had made and I interrupted and said yes! So they went in and changed tops and came back out and unveiled this sweetness. Larry and Jeannie started dating (if you can call it that) when they were in second grade, in 1950.
Clay Hess poses for a portrait between matches at the 2022 Humana Seattle Metro Pickleball Classic at Shoreview Park in Shoreline, Washington.
Billy Bob Thornton
Will Ferrell for The New York Times
Marilyn, 76, and John Richling, 73
Perry Fisher is working with Attorney Peter Borenstein to try and reclaim money allegedly stolen by his former attorney when he was incarcerated.
For The Marshall Project
Snoop Dogg + Martha Stewart
Lindsey Vonn
Aga Maru
Conan O’Brien
Julia Whelan, actor and voice actor
For The Lily
Christine Lahti
Quarterback Baker Mayfield for ESPN
Julia Roberts
LaKeith Stanfield For The Washington Post
Artistic duo FriendsWithYou are Samuel Borkson (left) and Arturo Sandoval III.
For The New York Times
Little Mr. and Miss Groundhog crowning ceremony at Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania following Punxsutawney Phil’s prediction for a longer winter.
Audrey Jean Johnson, 5, and David Kunselman, 6, were crowned
The ringmaster
Lindsey Vonn for TIME
Emma
A woman steps out of the Saturday night Classic Rock Dance Club at Fairway Recreation Center in Sun City
Bobby Cannavale
Tanaïs is a novelist and she also created Hi Wildflower, a beauty and fragrance brand.
The Fountain of Youth Spa and RV Park’s 50th Anniversary Parade in Niland, California.
The first annual Howl-O-Ween Dog Costume Parade at the Duffeeland Dog Park in Sun City.
Grace Zabriskie
Thomas Goett’s driveway is lined with plastic reinder. “My wife back up and ran him over,” he said of the broken one.

Coal-fired smokestacks can be seen from just about anywhere in Cheshire, Ohio. The village, which is along the Ohio River, has a population that is a fraction of what it was just years before. The schools sit empty with locked doors. In 2002, the American Electric Power Company settled with citizens over an investigation in pollution and the consequences it had on the residents. The power plant had a $20 million buyout and most of the more than 200 residents sold their property and left. Still, some residents remain in Cheshire today.
The Sun City Poms for AARP
Olaf Breuning’s smoke bomb installation
Sara and Erin Foster
Sisters Sara and Erin Foster
For The New York Times
Rapper Ca$h Out in Atlanta
For FADER
Daye Bjornholm, 7, and her dog Sky wait alongside Daniel DeBellis while people play pickleball at the Founders Courts on Bainbridge Island, Washington July 19, 2022. It was only Daniel’s second time playing the sport and he was icing his ankle after playing and hearing an ominous pop in his ankle. Clay Roberts and Bill Walker raised the funds for the courts. “We put out the word and raised about $200,000 to build these courts,” Roberts said. “This is such a generous community.” About 1500 people play there every month. “I thought we were building pickleball courts but we were building community.” Photo by Kendrick Brinson
On the set of DJ Khaled’s “No New Friends” video with Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, and Drake directed by Collin Tilley at Chateau Artisan outside of Miami, Florida.
Gillian Anderson + David Duchovny
Allie Van Why, Chugwater, Wyoming
Elena Turner poses for a portrait at her family home in Costa Mesa, California. She is spending her COVID quarantine from college at her family home.
Purple Woods, 77, poses for a portrait at the Sun City Senior Prom at Sundial Auditorium in Sun City, Arizona March 6, 2020. The theme was The Roaring Twenties and the flyer said “The Roaring 2020’s that is!”
As she walked in the entrance completely drenched in purple from head to toe (even a pillow, water bottle and bag she carried were purple), I was enamored with her—her spirit, her energy, the way she moved, how she said her one regret was never jumping out of a plane with a parachute so she could feel what it was like to float so effortlessly and how she cannot wait to go to heaven to dance on the clouds there.
Young Thug
Ryan Seacrest
Rappers walk a line that straddles struggle and fantasy, and fame.
Long hours late at night in a studio pay off for some.
Until then, success is projected through chains and rhymes.
This is a peek into both the projection and the reality.
Food truck, East Dublin, Georgia
Elvis Week and another Elvis sighting
Mindy Kaling
Allie Van Why flips her hair as she waits to run to second base during a tee ball game in Chugwater, Wyoming. Chugwater’s population is just under 300 people.
A swine competition at the Lincoln County State Fair in Troy, Missouri
Bluesman, Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Gordon Parlova and Debbie Webb dance at the annual Sun City Senior Prom at Sundial Auditorium in Sun City, Arizona March 6, 2020. The theme was The Roaring Twenties and the flyer said “The Roaring 2020’s that is!”
Petya and Viktoriya, who are acrobats from Bulgaria, have a unique act where they hang from their hair and spin. There’s no trick to the act, although they both spray their hair wet to make it hurt a little less. Viktoriya is married to one of the show’s motorcycle stuntmen, Andrey Medeiros, and the two have a three-year-old son.
Pedro Carillo, flexes his muscles, before heading into the ring to walk across the high wire with the Toprasta Troupe, from Colombia. Carillo was born in 1947 to a Colombian cowboy. He has been walking across the wire for more than 40 years. He performs the three-tier, 7-Man Pyramid on the High Wire with his troupe for the Cole Bros. Circus.
Jeannie and the tangerines in Sun City
Balloons are released by family and friends, including his youngest sister Janis Schewe (center, blonde), at the memorial service for Sun City resident Monte Haag, who moved to Sun City in 2000 and died in a crash flying an ultralight plane outside of Sun City.

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