At 75, Rachel McAlpine got a rather “rude awakening” that she was only three-quarters of the way through her life.
Her GP had predicted – after a lengthy health questionnaire was filled in – that the New Zealand author would probably live to 99.
“I even tried to lie and say I had taken up smoking, but that only brought it down to 98,” she laughs, while chatting to the Weekly from her Wellington apartment.
“I was shocked to the core – which sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? It made me realise I had classic ageism. I was against old age. I equated it with
