Perspective: I’m in my 70s. My closest friends are decades younger than I am.
By Erica Manfred March 8 at 7:00 AM “She’s just a young woman wrapped up in an old body,” this newspaper once wrote of Disco Sally, a 77-year-old woman who dirty-danced all night with the young, wild kids at Studio 54 in New York. When I read about the recently widowed former lawyer in the 1970s, she had a boyfriend in his 20s, and the likes of Bill Murray and Dustin Hoffman were lining up to dance with her.
Well, I’m now 76, and I understand Disco Sally perfectly. In fact, I have become her — my version of her. I am long divorced and no longer interested in a mate. But I still want to have a good time. I’ve taken on the mantle of token cool old lady in a group of young people who admire me for my refusal to become as stodgy as the other old people they know, like their parents. I am a role model for them because I refuse to act my age, though compared with Sally, my behavior is pretty sedate.
At Andrew’s parties, I get to do stuff generally eschewed by folks my age, like drink Jell-O shots; eat junk food instead of quinoa salads; stay up past midnight when most of my peers are in bed by 10 p.m.; play Cards Against Humanity . The best seat in the house is always saved for me, and these youngsters actually seem to listen to what I have to say and value my opinion.
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