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Ghana: African viewpoint: Old Mommies
[BBC News: 2010-03-10]

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In our series of viewpoints from African journalists, Ghanaian writer Elizabeth Ohene considers the so-called terms of endearment that come with old age.I had a birthday a few weeks back and I am now officially an old woman. I cannot of course be the president"s daughter, he was my contemporary at university, for goodness sake No amount of black hair dye . . .

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