Sixty Somethings
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The 'Swinging Sixties' are commonly depicted as hedonistic days. A point in history remembered for the generation of young people who shed the trappings of their parents and grandparents and, fuelled by sex, drugs, rock 'n roll, set out to put the world to rights. A time when individuality was…
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The swinging sixties are commonly thought of as hedonistic days (if you remember them you weren’t there). It was a period when young people threw off the trappings of their parents and, allegedly fuelled by drugs, sex, and rock ‘n roll, set out to put the world to rights: a time without precedent.
But was it really like that? What are the women of that generation up to now; and what do they remember of those times? Is sixty the new forty?
Despite pursuing careers, raising families, with quite a few as grandparents, others caring for their own aging parents,…
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