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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest 
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it must be discussed we shall not always be sweet young things with glace’ faces and necks of smooth white marble our eyes shall not always reflect sunlight nor shall our tumbling hair always smell river like wet and teeming with life how shall we be when this time leaves us and our necks are soft pleasant crepe wrinkled into our collars shall we be crabby old ladies shouting at children who dare cross our garden homey gingerbread women who wear aprons and sing at church crotchety old hags sneering at shop people our now bony noses turned to the air none of these will do girls such as we life dancers bare back riders bright scarves floating on the wind no I think darling that we have no option but to be eccentric |
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Dominique-Simone Senior Member
since 2005-11-12
Posts 643 |
shall we be crabby old ladies shouting at children who dare cross our garden homey gingerbread women who wear aprons and sing at church crotchety old hags sneering at shop people our now bony noses turned to the air Such a great visual |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
"I think darling that we have no option but to be eccentric" You're right...I'm already headed in that direction.  |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
But but but... you have to be rich to be called eccentric. Poor old ladies can be smiling or crabby but they will always be called "old ladies".. So on with the Red Hats and happy faces, no one likes crabby old ladies.. |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
 I love it! |
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froggy Senior Member
since 2003-06-23
Posts 1893Michigan |
Love It. |
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The Lady Member Rara Avis
since 2005-12-26
Posts 7634The Southwest |
Thank you all so much. |
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Nancy Hardin Member
since 2009-12-02
Posts 58Nevada, United States of America |
My Dear, I love this so much! What a wonderful tone to growing old. I think that being eccentric is the only way to be! And I think that one of the best compliments my children, grandchildren and great grandchildren could pay me after I'm gone would be "She was very eccentric, you know." Gee, maybe I should write a poem about that! |
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