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How to be old by Lyn Slater

  I am sixty six so I guess you could say that I have already mastered this subject, but when I saw this in the library I thought I might see how someone else is handling it. It's not exactly a Haynes Maintenance Manual, more a re-telling of the events that led to Lyn Slater becoming known as 'The Accidental Icon', and you may have seen her blog or her posts on Instagram.  She's very stylish and when she became accidentally famous she was living in Manhatten and already had a keen interest in fashion.  I was only a few pages in when I decided that I probably wouldn't ever wear Japanese deconstructed clothes from high fashion brands, so I must confess I just skimmed through the rest of the book.  We don't need lessons in how to be old because it creeps over you like fog in the night and all you can do is stay healthy and don't get tempted to follow any light. I often hear people say that they don't feel any different inside than when they were teenagers, ...