Mary McCarthy celebrates 108th birthday in Havana

(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-04-28 13:43

Mary McCarthy blows out the candles on her birthday cake with the help of her grandson Elio Garcia at their home in Havana April 27, 2008. Mary McCarthy celebrated her 108th birthday on Sunday and despite being wheelchair bound, she still dresses up in a satin dress, and with red lipstick coloring her wrinkled face. Her jewelry though, are plastic while her real jewelry and the small fortune she inherited when she was widowed in 1951 have been frozen in a Boston bank. [Agencies]

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