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125 Year Old Woman
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2543879.stm
Mali's 125-year-old woman
At the ripe old age of 125 years, Hawa Sacko is no longer able to get about on her own. ...
... I ask her how she feels about being the oldest person in Mali, maybe even the world.
"I can't possibly be older than my mother," she laughs.
"But as for me being older than other living people, it's true I'm older than all the other living people I know.
"But I can't say anything about all those people I don't know." ...
The only thing keeping her out of the Guinness Book of Records, where the oldest living person on earth is 10 years her junior, is the lack of a birth certificate.
But her vivid memories and firsthand accounts from the late 1800s of the West African resistance fighter Almamy Samory Toure and the arrival of French colonists, allow social workers to put her age at 125, going on 126. ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2543879.stm
Mali's 125-year-old woman
At the ripe old age of 125 years, Hawa Sacko is no longer able to get about on her own. ...
... I ask her how she feels about being the oldest person in Mali, maybe even the world.
"I can't possibly be older than my mother," she laughs.
"But as for me being older than other living people, it's true I'm older than all the other living people I know.
"But I can't say anything about all those people I don't know." ...
The only thing keeping her out of the Guinness Book of Records, where the oldest living person on earth is 10 years her junior, is the lack of a birth certificate.
But her vivid memories and firsthand accounts from the late 1800s of the West African resistance fighter Almamy Samory Toure and the arrival of French colonists, allow social workers to put her age at 125, going on 126. ...
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