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World's oldest person, Emma Morano, dies at age of 117


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Emma Morano was born on 29 November 1899 in the Piedmont region of Italy. She was officially the last person born in the 1800s still living.

She had attributed her longevity to her genetics and a diet of three eggs a day, two of them raw.

Her life not only spanned three centuries but also survived an abusive marriage, the loss of her only son, two World Wars and more than 90 Italian governments.

According to the US-based Gerontology Research Group (GRG), the world's oldest registered human is now Jamaican Violet Brown, who was born on March 10, 1900.

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I see these "oldest person living dies" frequently,
but this Emma Morano was the last person born in the 1800s
(that was still around) - and, you know, that's it folks.
I don't know if growing old is an "accomplishment,"
but I'm pretty damn impressed with her and her spot
in the history books if just for the fact that she stuck it out.
Also, it often seems that people over 100 look miserable - like
"did I really wish for this" kind of miserable. Can't see their mind tho.

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My grandmother (father's side) was born in 1897, and she lived to 100! She had memories of visiting the St. Louis world's fair in 1904, among many other notable things (half of which I've forgotten, I'm afraid).

Drove until she was 95, lived in an apartment by herself until 98, and still had most of her faculties until early in her 99th year.

My own father turns 90 next month, and although he's slowing down a bit (in the last year especially), I think he might well match his mother's longevity and quality of life.

I'm just 48 myself, but have always felt better-connected a little farther back into the past (than my contemporaries), both because my own parents were a good generation older (my dad especially, who's easily old enough to be my grandfather), and my grandma - who was easily old enough to have been my great-grandmother.

Growing up (in the 70's & 80's), everything after about 1920 seemed like relatively 'recent' history to me, since stories told around the dining room table - particularly around holidays - spanned a good bit of the last century.

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Thanks Rooster. She almost lived in three centuries!
On Friday, we're hoping to take a family friend, named
Libby, to a favorite Thai restaurant to celebrate her
97th b-day. She's exactly 6 years older than the Queen!
Only just this past year she sold her house and her car
and she's still as sharp as ever. The University of Texas
at Dallas has an undergraduate research journal named
after her called The Exley.

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You know I'm short walking distance from where that used to be (in the ad)
and the one mentioned in the article is only a short distance away from that.
Since, Libby used to live only a few blocks away from us, maybe we would've
all got together to see Miss Inez in the old days. My sweetheart can't recall
family outings with Libby at Luby's, but Luby's for the little lineage happened
liberally. Trini Lopez!

"When it's Libby, Libby, Libby
at your table, table, table,
she will like it, like it, like it,
'cause she's able, able, able..."

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On 4/19/2017 at 2:01 PM, rostasi said:

The Killeen Luby's massacre happened about 25 years ago
and about 150 miles SW of us here. Terrible thing

Yeah, I remember that's when Steely Dan stopped playing Don't Take Me Alive during their concert because that was what he had playing on the cassette deck in his truck. We saw them in either '94 or '95 and they still weren't playing it. 

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