[BITList] SO YOU THINK I'M OLD?

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> *Jeanne **Louise Calment had the longest confirmed human*
>
> *Lifespan on record: 122 years and 164 days.*
>
> *It seems that fate strongly approved of the way Madam Calment lived 
> her life.*
>
> *Jeanne was born in Arles, France, on 21st February 1875.*
>
> *When the Eiffel Tower was built, she was 14 year old.*
>
> *It was at this time that she met Vincent van Gogh.*
>
> *"He was dirty, badly dressed and disagreeable," she recalled in an 
> interview given in 1988.*
>
> *When she was 85, she took up fencing, and she was still riding on her 
> bike when she reached 100.*
>
> *When Jeanne was 114, she starred in a film about her life; at 115 she 
> had an operation on her hip, and at 117 she gave up smoking (having 
> started at the age of 21 in 1896).*
>
> *Apparently, she didn't give it up for health reasons, but because she 
> didn't like having to ask someone to help her light a cigarette once 
> she was becoming almost blind.*
>
> *In 1965, Jeanne was 90 years old and had no heirs.*
>
> *She signed a deal to sell her apartment to a 47-year-old lawyer 
> called André-François Raffray.*
>
> *He agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs on the condition 
> that he would inherit her apartment after she died.*
>
> *However, Raffray not only ended up paying Jeanne for 30 years, but 
> died before she did at the age of 77.*
>
> *His widow was legally obliged to continue paying Madam Calment until 
> the end of her days.*
>
> *Jeanne retained sharp mental faculties.*
>
> *When she was asked on her 120th birthday what kind of future she 
> expected to have, she replied: "A very short one."*
>
> *Quotes and rules of life from Jeanne Calment:*
>
> *"Being young is a state of mind, it doesn't depend on one's body, I'm 
> actually still a young girl; it's just that I haven't looked so good 
> for the past 70 years."*
>
> *"I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it."*
>
> *"All babies are beautiful."*
>
> *"I'm in love with wine."*
>
> *"Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life."*
>
> *"If you can't change something, don't worry about it."*
>
> *"I have a huge desire to live and a big appetite, especially for 
> sweets."*
>
> *"I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often."*
>
> *"I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine."*
>
> *"I think I will die of laughter."*
>
> *"I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to 
> rust and buckle a bit."*
>
> *(At the end of one interview, in response to a journalist who said he 
> hoped they would meet again the following year):*
>
> *"Why not? You're not that old; you'll still be here."*
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