Mary McCarthy picks a pearl necklace to wear at a diplomatic reception at her home in Havana August 10, 2007. At the age of 107, McCarthy is wheelchair-bound, but still dresses up in a satin dress, silk blouse and chiffon scarf, red lipstick coloring her wrinkled face. Her pearl necklace and earrings, though, are plastic. Her real jewelry and the small fortune she inherited when she was widowed in 1951 have been frozen in a Boston bank since the United States placed Cuba under sanctions after Fidel Castro's leftist revolution in 1959. REUTERS/Claudia Daut (CUBA)