In fact, she "loves" - emphatically loves - her age. "I don't seem old, do I?" she asks, more out of curiosity than a need for reassurance. I just say to myself, 'Straighten up, Sarton!' " Upon which, she vigorously pulls her body up to the fullest of its medium height. Her appearance coincides with the publication of her most recent novel, "The Magnificent Spinster," a fictional biography of her great friend and seventh-grade teacher, Anne Thorp.Īnd she has a stoop - but, she says, moving about briskly in her kitchen, "I've always had bad posture. Sarton, author of 42 novels, journals, memoirs and books of poetry, will give a sold-out reading in Washington today as part of the Smithsonian's Resident Associate Program. I thought, you know, first Bramble will go, then Tamas, and then I, because we are a very closely knit little family." She worries more about their deaths than her own: "When the cat was so sick, I really went into a tailspin. And I think, but I'm 73!"Įven her companions - a cat, Bramble, and a sheltie, Tamas - are, relatively speaking, in their senior years.
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