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tonight on "nightline," fountain of youth, where you may think god left their mark. and people seem to live longer, happier, and healthier than the rest of us mortals. so what is their secret? >> wine and wisdom. friends with kids, sometimes marriages lose their romance, but what about starting out that way? meet a woman and her search for a co-parent. it is the new friends with benefits. going postal. a fedex worker caught on tape, and the whole handle with care

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from new york city, this is "nightline." with dan abrams. good evening, and thank you for joining us. what if there was a place, an ideallic island, where residents don't go to gyms or take special pills or adhere to fad diets, and yet they live longer and have a life-style that others envy. then again, it may also be hard to believe what my "nightline" co-anchor bill weir found when he traveled to the amazing place in the agean sea. >> reporter: when you think of the good life on a greek island,

you may see live bodies boasting the glory of youth, and party like there is no tomorrow. but what if i told you there is another greek island few people know about. where they party long past tomorrow and well into their 90s. a place where they eat amazing food. wash it down with homemade wine. and make love without the help of any little blue pills. two times a week? that is impressive. well, that place is real. and it is called ikaria. and it is home to many hearty souls, many who refuse to get sick, and many simply refuse to die. >> it is a largely forgotten island. >> reporter: he is an expert on so-called blue zones, places in

japan, sardinia, italy, places where people manage to out live the rest of us by ten years or more. >> this place had people over 90, more than any place in the world. >> reporter: when he first began to investigate this place, he found a guy, an ikarian who moved to the states as a young man and stayed until age 66, when he was diagnosed with cancer. given just a few months to live, he went home and planted a garden and waited to die. but death never came, and 36 years later, after he out lived all of his doctors, he passed peacefully at 102. >> you don't want to live this age if you're disabled. here, they live a very long time and tend to die peacefully in their sleep. and occasionally after sex.

they also have all of their mental faculties in place, americans will spend 20 million a year on dementia, and here, they have only a small trace of dementia. so in other words, living a long time and health go hand in hand. >> reporter: so what is their secret here? and can we steal it? well, turns out finding theories is as easy as finding spunky seniors, like angelina. what is your secret? you have a friend upstairs? she is 97 years old. and has the grip of a teenager. when you come to new york city, i'm going to take you out to some night clubs. when she is not cleaning her own house or yelling at the neighbor lady, she is playing an instrument and singing, although apparently neither on demand. we tried to trick her into singing a few bars, but she is

too quick for that. you're going to be 125. and then there is konstantinos, a century old and still showing up for work every day. the cane helps with the wooden leg, he lost the real one fighting in world war ii. and his secret is home brewed. so i am not allowed to drink the entire bottle of wine at one time? wine and wisdom from a 1 100-year-old greek. this still work? >> diet -- >> reporter: demetrius is just a baby at 78, but well on his way. so what is the secret? to ikaria? wine? >> three glasses a day. >> reporter: and if you think living forever means giving up

other vices, meet gregorius, a pack a day smoker and 100 years old. and attention, ladies, he is looking for love. >> how about 60, 65 -- >> reporter: a cradle robber. it soon becomes obvious that these are people who maximize social engagement and minimize stress. and the best way to do it is throw away the clock. >> they have a strange routine, they tend to sleep late, eat late and work, in the summer, people stay up to 2 or 3:00 in the morning. >> that is my kind of rhythm. >> reporter: when ben franklin came up with the early to bed,

early to rise stuff, he obviously had not met gregorius, he is sometimes on the prowl late at night. except for the wine? >> if you don't like what you see. [ laughter ] >> i want to party with you. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: but be careful what you wish for. see, ikaria is named after icarius, remember the guy in greece who flew too close to the sun? i began to suspect it had something to do with the local's grape juice. and that wine last night? that is not your typical bottle of merlot. that stuff is like 15 proof. >> yeah, you can remove paint with it. they very rarely drink wine by

itself. it is always consumed with a little bit of food. it is consumed with friends. it is not something you come home after work and pound a couple of glasses. >> yeah, nobody is drinking alone there. >> reporter: the rest of their diet is typical mediterranean goodness, with fish, nuts, a little meat. they start every day with the spoonful of honey, to help the stomach. and they drink the herbal tea, keeping inflammation down. do you give your wife a kiss? she is laughing. like a scrub girl? and despite the severe terrain, there are no wheelchair lanes or shuttle buses. these are people who move to live. and vice versa. our grandparents burned about five times as many calories in

nonexercise physical activity. here these people move mindlessly. they burn a thousand calories a day just doing everyday chores, working, gardening, walking to their friend's house. and i think that is a big secret for americans. nobody here tried to live to 100, they didn't have the certain kind of diet or -- >> join a gym. >> take a supplement. didn't happen. it is a result of their environment. >> reporter: and when it comes to mental health, here is another huge key. old folks are treasured in this society. >> the idea that they would warehouse their seniors is a vile thought here. >> yeah, the idea of putting your aging parent in a retirement home would bring shame to the family. they're seen as having wisdom. they help with child care and help with the garden. they feel like they're -- they have a sense of purpose. they're not just told well, you work for 40 or 50 years, and now, go down to florida and

retire. all we know for sure is that people are living eight to ten years longer without dementia. they do so without depression, without heart disease and cancer, big killers in america. they don't have special genes. there is a combination between the way they live and their environment that has yielded a long life. >> they're just getting stronger and stronger. >> reporter: but if they get their way, scientists and reporters will stop by angelina's house for years to come to hear the secret to a long and happy life. for "nightline," ikaria, greece. >> looks like she may have been going for the lips there, bill. and check out a slide show of ikaria, at

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. these days women have more choices on how and when to start a family, and with who. and some are putting love on the back burner and just placing having a child front and center. how does that work? can it work? today, we welcome this woman, and her new nuclear family. >> reporter: nina davenport is

about to do something unusual. she said she always wanted to be a mom, and wanted it since she was in her 30s. >> i think i wanted it for almost ten years, when i woke up and realized i was nearing 41 and a half, i started to panic, and i really felt like it was now or never. >> reporter: so nina made the boldest decision of her life. >> as i told you before, i don't know whether my sperm is the ideal sperm. >> reporter: single motherhood is becoming the choice for many, and hollywood is catching on. >> you know what? i want to do this. i want to have a kid, and i'm in the market for some semen. we don't have to have sex -- >> will you be in baby daddy? >> reporter: now there is a whole industry devoted to matching men and women looking for a co-parent but not a

spouse. social media is helping people meet each other, and if they agree, have a child. eric finally agreed to donate his sperm to nina, no strings attached. >> i will not try to get money or try to make you change diapers. >> reporter: and just like that, nina embarked on a journey into motherhood, documenting it all on the camera. >> i am trying to figure out where the left-hand quadrant of my ab is. >> reporter: the film is titled "first comes love". >> he is gorgeous. here he comes. >> reporter: nina encountered mixed reactions from her family. >> and how can you -- >> you're a single mother with a fatherless child, beginning to sound like the ghetto.

>> one thing that struck me in the movie is how you really wanted your family members, to seek out their approval. >> i think because i come from such a conventional family, it was harder for me to embark on an unconventional road. so i think i was just looking for them to say it is okay, you can do this. and some did say that, and others were not so encouraging. >> like your dad? >> including my dad. >> reporter: as these arrangements become more popular, there is a concern that the roles could be detrimental to the well-being of the child. >> marriage is a fundamental building block of our civilization, the fiber that keeps us strong, and certainly it is the ideal model from which we raise children. >> and were you worried about jasper having an important male figure in your life, because you were not sure how involved eric would be? >> i guess i don't think it is necessary. i think it is great if you have

it. but this idea that it has to be a man and a woman, it doesn't work like that. i think it is more about are there people who love this child? >> reporter: it is not the family she thought of when she was 25. but nina says she wouldn't change anything that led her to motherhood. >> do you think you will be able to be a better parent to jasper because you were 42 when you had him? >> i think there is a lot to be said for being mature, feeling like you lived your life and you were not sort of wishing you were going out and missing things. and i was so ready for it that i was ready to give him everything. >> reporter: for her, first came love, then a family. and perhaps some day. marriage. >> love you sweetie pie. >> reporter: for "nightline." new york. >> thank you, adidi. next, whatever you say about these jewel thieves, they definitely take care of their own. [ lighter flicking ]

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good at breaking into jewelry stores as they are breaking out of prisons. and the man finally paying

the price for his horrible deeds in tonight's "feed frenzy." life plus a thousand, he kidnapped three young women, held them captive for years in this house in cleveland. now it is his turn. 53-year-old ariel castro pled guilty to multiple counts of assault and rape. the indictment read like a horrifying time line for the victims trapped in his home. castro's sentence? life without parole, plus a thousand years, just in case there is life after life. jail break, a famous band of jewel thieves struck again today. but this was not in a diamond store, but in a prison. and rather than swiping high-priced gems, they took a famous prisoner, famously called

pink panther. get this, the third member of the crew to escape in as many months, nothing like the bumbling character in the "pink panther" movies. and unless you're hurling somebody's packages into the middle of a truck. in the middle of manhattan, a fedex worker was caught doing just that. an amused co-worker helped. because it absolutely, positively had to be there overnight. thank you for joining us on "nightline." tune in, we're always on line on abc.com. good night, have a great evening.