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This is 63: "Modern Sounds" Radio Host Cliff Chenfeld Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"I am still wearing the same basic uniform of T shirts, jeans and converse all stars, that I have since the Nixon administration."
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This is 64: Harriet Brown Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"I’m keenly aware of the fact that I’m in the last part of my life, however long or short it turns out to be, and I’m not sure what story to tell myself…
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This is (Anticipating) 60: Book Maven Bethanne Patrick Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"I overcame a serious form of mental illness, double depression, and proper treatment and self care have given me a new lease on life and a new ability…
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This is 51: Jacinta Bunnell Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"I think that ideally a layer of uncertainty washes away with each decade."
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April 2023
This is 72: Master Memoirist Beverly Donofrio Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"My favorite t-shirt has the word 'Hag' printed on the front...I’m an Old Lady aspiring to be a Hag."
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This is 90: Paul Zolbrod Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"In step with my peers? I have only two long-standing friends in their 90s, and we all three keep pace with one-another as best we can."
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This is 46: Maggie Smith Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"My kids joke that I’m not like the other moms. But what does that mean exactly? I’m a poet, my arms are covered with tattoos, my nose is pierced, and I…
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This is 54: Cheryl Strayed Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"Fifty-four years of living has taught me that I can persist through the hard times—and also that hard times pass."
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March 2023
This is 85: Irwin Epstein Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"Love the ones you love—unstintingly."
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This is 60: Author Dani Shapiro Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"I’ve begun to become aware of myself as an elder and am slowly embracing all that goes with that: mentorship, responsibility, life experience I can…
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This is 54: Author Kimberly Harrington Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"All the previous versions of me feel like they’re almost other people at this point."
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This is 50: Comic Book Author Jonathan Baylis Responds to The Oldster Magazine Questionnaire
"I once talked to my mother-in-law who was rounding 90 and I told her that I still feel young, like 18. And she said, 'Yeah, me too. I feel like 80!'”
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