108th birthday in Havana: Mary McCarthy blows out the candles on her 108th birthday cake with the help of her godson Elio Garcia at their home in Havana, Sunday. 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 since the U.S. placed Cuba under sanctions after Fidel Castro’s leftist revolution in 1959./
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