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Wed Jan 18, 2023, 09:38 AM Jan 2023

A French nun believed to be the world's oldest person dies at 118

PARIS — A French nun who was believed to be the world’s oldest person has died a few weeks before her 119th birthday, the spokesperson for her nursing home in southern France said Wednesday.

Lucile Randon, known as Sister André, was born in the town of Ales, southern France, on Feb. 11, 1904. She was also one of the world’s oldest survivors of COVID-19.


The Gerontology Research Group, which validates details of people thought to be 110 or older, listed her as the oldest known person in the world after the death of Japan’s Kane Tanaka, aged 119, last year.

She was known to enjoy a daily glass of wine and chocolate.

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-01-18/world-oldest-person-french-nun-dies-118

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A French nun believed to be the world's oldest person dies at 118 (Original Post) underpants Jan 2023 OP
Wine and chocolate EYESORE 9001 Jan 2023 #1
Proof libido is detrimental to your health bucolic_frolic Jan 2023 #2

EYESORE 9001

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1. Wine and chocolate
Wed Jan 18, 2023, 09:51 AM
Jan 2023

Works for me. At that age, however, are wine or chocolate sufficient incentive to keep on going? She was in all likelihood celibate, so she had more will power than most other people.

bucolic_frolic

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2. Proof libido is detrimental to your health
Wed Jan 18, 2023, 09:52 AM
Jan 2023

I think Br. Philosopher Jeremy Bentham opined we are entitled to a short happy life, or a long miserable one.

Maybe those of us who are out of fucks will be better off, longevity wise.

Cloister those underpants!!

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