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Sheila MacLeod

  • Irreparable physical damage aside, being fifty or sixty is surely no more of a 'problem' than being ten, twenty, thirty or forty. However old you are, you're mortal. Isn't that exactly what makes life as interesting, precious, cruel, unjust and altogether extraordinary as it is?

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    • "Drunken Drowning," in Joanna Goldsworthy, ed., A Certain Age: Reflecting on the Menopause ()

Sheila MacLeod, Scottish writer