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** Well that and the fact that he had some admiration for her since {{spoiler|she was addicted to morphine and trying to quit before she died of the disease she had. Dying slowly and very painfully instead of easily without pain if she had just stayed on it. That takes guts}}.
* The poem ''Warning - When I Am An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple'' by Jenny Joseph is about a middle-aged-or-so woman fantasizing about being eccentric when she is older and doing such things as learning to spit, swearing in the street, and picking flowers in other people's gardens.
** It is worth noting that one line of the poem ("...I shall wear purple with a red hat...") inspired the whole the "Red Hat Society" thing. Lately, many products for older women proudly display a funny red hat as a symbol of sisterly unity. Which leads one to wonder how many of them ever really paid attention to what the poem is saying: I will do the things I want to do without regard for what is expected of me. [[Rule
* The following verse by Lemuel F. Parton sounds a similar note:
{{quote| ''I have led a good life, full of peace and quiet/I shall have an old age full of rum and riot/I have been a good boy, wed to peace and study/I shall have an old age, ribald, coarse and bloody/I have never cut throats, even when I yearned to/Never sang the dirty songs that my fancy turned to/I have been a nice boy, and done what was expected/I shall die an old bum, loved but unrespected.'' }}
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