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Advanced age plays little role in being cranky

Published 11/10/04

Earlier this year, the 83-year-old state comptroller started complaining about a Spanish-speaking McDonald's clerk who served him his daily breakfast of tea and a biscuit.

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Then William Donald Schaefer went off about AIDS patients, calling for a registry of Marylanders infected with the virus, bringing on criticism.

A curmudegon? Sure, he's OK with that label. But does the former governor fit the stereotype of a grumpy old man?

"I don't have a stereotype," Mr. Schaefer said. "I say what I think."

Seniors and experts on aging agreed, saying that being older doesn't mean being grumpier. In other words, Willie Don has...

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