107-year-old Australian woman Olive Riley has a brilliant new blog (or “blob,” as she endearingly calls it). It’s charming, sweet, funny, a bit rambling at times, and just plain fascinating—just what you’d expect from someone who’s lived for over a century. I hope both Olive and her blob are with us for a very long time.
Here’s an excerpt about the time Olive decided to get dentures at the ripe old age of thirty-one:
Olive:
I went down to the dentist and he said; “Oh yes, you’ve got a couple of decayed teeth there.â€
Mike:
Just a couple, though?
Olive:
Yeah. So, I said take ‘em out. “What, now???†He said. (I was on me lunch hour, yer see.) And I said yes, now! And so he took ‘em out. Then, I said; while you’re about it, you might as well take the lot out.
Mike:
But the thing I don’t understand is, why you would have asked [the] dentist to take everything out? It’s so drastic.
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