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Regional Interests

Chronologically Gifted: Ashton Applewhite (part II) on Aging While Female

KHSU | By Ann Diver-Stamnes

Published March 24, 2017 at 9:01 AM PDT

Ashton Applewhite returns with part two of her interview on aging while female, a term she coined. As she notes, "We experience aging as betrayal and that face in the mirror as alien."

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