The same readers will be drawn to this thorough and attractive biography, though many will be shocked by its revelations and the affairs that continued into her old age.
Prolonged oestrogen secretion would certainly keep a woman fertile longer, and it might also keep her healthier in old age as those who use hormone-replacement therapy are well aware.
That may or may not prove that drinking high quality single malt Scotch whisky is good for you, but it did earn her recognition in the form of the 55 Year Old Glenfiddich Janet Sheed Roberts Reserve, named in her honor to celebrate her birthday at this ripe old age.
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Oprah plays Sethe, the former slave who, in 1873, lives in an Ohio farmhouse with her teen-age daughter, Denver (Kimberly Elise), her old friend and new lover Paul D (Danny Glover), and the ghost of the daughter she killed long ago when the girl was about to be retaken into slavery.
She had opened an account on MySpace and received a message from someone she thought was Josh Evans, a 16-year-old boy around her age.
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As I type this, a video made by her father, showing the 60-pound, 9-year-old girl running roughshod over boys her age in a wide range of sizes, is up above 2 million views on YouTube.
She was 17 years old and had lied about her age to get the job.
It was true that old age had finally got her, as her daughter-in-law said.
She went on to paint a picture of those her age "back in the day" as old people -- wrinkled, shriveled up and discarded by society.
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Take swimming's silver medalist Dara Torres, whose much-covered personal history--a 41-year-old mother competing against women half her age in her fifth Olympic Games--makes her both a remarkable and marketable fan favorite, with or without a gold medal dangling from her neck.
As a five-year-old, she had to lie about her age when she auditioned, as the casting notice asked for children aged six to nine.
The little girl is the daughter of the youngest of eight sons, and is being brought up by her grandparents, who she will look after in their old age.
One of the youngest in Heller's study, a 15-year-old girl who was married off to her uncle at age 8, spent eight months selling bags of candied peanuts in order to raise enough money to pay for a taxi so she could get to a fistula center.
His mother was an unmarried teenager and in an autobiography he describes hitch-hiking with her as a three-year-old and having to beg at age four.
The 80-year-old has been in business since 1984, but her shop could close after the Derby because her older, loyal customer base has shrunk due to illness and old age.
One girl, 13-year-old Zilan Gulsum, is Turkey's top player in her age group.
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Another American, 16-year-old Mikaela Shiffrin is already ranked higher than Vonn and Mancuso were at her age.
She died at her home in Rancho Mirage, California on September 10, 2007 at the ripe old age of 90.
The 62-year-old Nyad -- who completed her Lake Ontario swim in 1974 at the age of 24 -- was a third of the way to her goal as of Sunday evening.
The England squad has an average age of only 23 with 17-year-old Laura Harper, who made her debut against South Africa last summer, the youngest player chosen.
He was a frequent visitor at her country estate, Chatsworth, and the two were platonically entwined through their letters well into old age.
The girl, thought to be 14 years old but with a younger mental age, was arrested last month after a mob accused her of burning pages of the Koran.
Abby is your typical fun loving, upbeat 11-year-old girl, who has a love for sports and, much like me when I was her age, she loves to swim.
Sandra Bullock admitted she'd been loose with the truth and "Beverly Hills, 90210" star Gabrielle Carteris famously lied about her age she was 29 to nab the role of Andrea Zuckerman, a 16-year-old high-school student.
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While visiting with my 89 year old mother in law, Alice, my husband and I asked her whether she thought successful people her age are willing to discuss their assets, their businesses, their attitudes about passing on their wealth with their kids.
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It turns out the the average 30-35 year old person will experience roughly a 25 percent decline in his or her muscle strength and tone by the age of 70-75, and up to a 50 percent decline approaching the age of 90.
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