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Will you still need me when I’m 104? Yes.

Many of us marvel at people that live to be one hundred-years-old. In the next few days there will be a bundle of knowledge, joy and wisdom who will be 104. She was born Helen Beatrice Cox on May 1st 1917 in Gibsland, Louisiana just outside of Shreveport.

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