The 82-year-old looks back on her remarkable life
If you read anything this month, make it Ann Ingle’s memoir, ‘Openhearted’. From abortion to her husband’s struggle with mental illness, the 82-year-old looks back on her remarkable life. She tells Bianca Luykx about the lessons from the decades…In my twenties, I was having babies, lots of them. But all through the pregnancies and sleepless nights, I had a book in my hand. Bringing up children is wonderful but at times it is lonely and so monotonous.
Don’t neglect your friends, the good ones that is. I wasted a lot of time and energy on people who often didn’t respect me enough to turn up on time for a coffee. Real friendship is a gift but you have to work at it. Send that birthday card, write that email or even better, a letter, and keep in touch. Dorothy, my childhood friend, who lives in England, is 83 now and still writes to me.
me. Paradise is the name of a beach on the island of Mykonos in Greece. I sold my house, the family home, and had real money in my pocket for the first time in my life, which – because of my attitude and ignorance – did not last too long. If you have been working full time, it is a good idea to have something planned to fill the void if you can. I stayed with my daughter for a year and after that I was at a loss. I felt I had so much more to give but nobody wanted it. I started a blog, which hardly anybody read. I joined a dating site for older people and met some interesting men who told me the story of their lives but didn’t seem interested in mine.
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