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Veteran journalist Barbara Falconer Newhall riffs on life as she knows it.

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Grace Falconer Perlmutter Kleis — How to Be a Glamorous Gal at Age 98

A glamorous red-head with her great nephew

My aunt was tall, red-headed, blue-eyed, self-sufficient and glamorous at a time and place when most women in her hometown wanted nothing more than to get married, have babies and put up green beans and blackberry jam. Read more.

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