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Whether at a party or the grocery store, people have no hesitation in sharing their most intimate problems with Charles Dyer. Urinary tract infections, incontinence, prostate trouble — the questions are the trappings of the 77-year-old’s profession. ...

Jean Amédé Caze thought learning the trumpet would be easy. Once he got it home, he realised his mistake. “It took me three days of trying just to make sound come out of the instrument,” the 35-year-old laughed. “I’ve been battling with it ever sinc...

Mariah Cordeiro vividly remembers the first time she was sexually harassed. She was 13, playing mini-golf with her family, when a man asked her to squat. After repeated requests, she gave in because she “was young and didn’t want confrontation”. “My ...

Nancy Missett was more than a little sceptical when her daughter suggested she enter a triathlon. After all, she was about to turn 75. “I said, ‘At my age?’,” laughed the retired teacher. “My daughter did a triathlon last summer in New York. I just t...

Eugene “Buck” Woods knows a good thing when he sees it. He spotted Jewell Raynor on the street in 1957 and knew instantly that she’d make an excellent wife. “She was a very attractive young lady,” the 83-year-old recalled. “There was just something ...

Kerry Magro is an author, movie consultant and motivational speaker, and has spoken in 100 different locations in the last year. When he was a child, his parents never imagined such a life for him as in early childhood he struggled to talk and he was...

Imagine seeing life through a greasy camera lens — colours are dimmer; contrasts less easy to discern. Everything becomes harder: crossing the road safely, reading, recognising the faces of loved ones. It is an everyday experience for many of the 2,...

Lucille Spencer fits a bit of exercise into every morning. She touches her toes and stretches; if there is music on, she will dance. The 95-year-old thinks her efforts are one of the reasons she has aged well — most people assume she is years younger...

Dancing in front of Debbie Allen was tough, but Ava Moreno won her over. The legendary performer was “very intense” said the 11-year-old, who was a bundle of nerves during the last-minute audition. She and seven other members of DanceSations School o...

At 25, Porsha Kimble lost her job after a drug test showed she had been using cocaine. She thinks baking saved her life. As she worked on getting herself clean, she decided it was a way to pay her bills. “Nobody in my family knew, but I’d been abusi...