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Divorcée lol

Instantly my daughter nixed it. “It’s French,” she said. “It sounds snobby. No.”

“It’s funny,” I maintained. “It’s outdated and retro. Visualize a bottle blonde drowning her sorrows alone at a piano bar. Divorcée, lol.” I Iet it go.

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Ashton Applewhite on age bias and how & what she’s unlearning at 74

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I used to say I had a perfect nose.

Why not? Because historically, a “perfect” nose typically signified the narrow, straight, Anglo-Saxon variety. See Exhibit A, above, on narrow, straight, Anglo-Saxon me. That standard implies that other types of schnoz are less desirable. I...

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I’m still worried about the shoes.

My first talk, which I first gave in 2011, was titled Old Age Sucks and It’s Going to Be Great. It contained this passage, which I thought was hilarious:

Slowly, skeptically, gears grinding, my point of view began to shift. I realized that...

2 months ago
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Why did an admiring comment make me feel so weird?

In my next life, I’m going to be a good dancer. That hasn’t kept me from jumping around in this life, as this photo from college days attests, though I still wish I had moves.

One of the happy accidents of my life, some three decades later...

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  • Ashton Applewhite

    Author, activist, late bloomer. Reckoning with what else I’m here for.

  • Sari Botton

    Sari Botton is the author of the memoir "And You May Find Yourself." She edited two bestselling anthologies: "Goodbye to All That" and "Never Can Say Goodbye." She publishes Oldster Magazine, Memoir Land, and Adventures in Journalism.

  • Debbie Weil

    A curious, candid look at the bittersweetness of old age, from the blessings to the bullshit. [B]adass author, reporter, editor, podcaster, Web pioneer, grandmother, married 53 years.

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