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92+ Years Apart, Yet Linked Together
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92+ Years Apart, Yet Linked Together

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Jim Buie
Dec 25, 2023
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At our Christmas party, grandson Theo, born in January 2015, kissed his great-grandmother Carol, born in November 1922.

Assuming he lives into the 22nd century, he will well remember someone born 19 decades before.

This would be like someone born in the 1950s remembering someone born in the 1850s. A rare occurrence, to say the least.

Carol likes to recal…

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