> > By Grant McCool > > Author Joyce Maynard, who had a 9-month affair with Salinger > > 26 years ago when he was 53 and she was 18 > > After reading this, I don't know if the word "human" comes to my mind... I'm going out with a guy nearly as young as my brother. My aunt is living with a guy who is so young that his brother was in my year at school : he's 23, she's 40. My grandfather and grandmother are ten years apart. My parents were born a week apart, and at the same hospital, though they knew nothing of one another for the next ten years. All of us are happy, well adjusted people very much in love with our respective partners. my point is: what has age got to do with it??? I could go through endless examples - Edgar Allen Poe and his wife, etc etc etc ... but I don't feel like it. A thought though: is this woman the `housewife' that Ian Hamilton mentions in `In Search of JD Salinger' having finally realised the moneymaking potential in having known him? Camille verona_beach@geocities.com @ THE ARTS HOLE www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442 THE INVERTED FOREST www.angelfire.com/pa/invertedforest