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Susannah Mushatt Jones, the world’s oldest person, has died in New York at age 116. Robert Young, a senior consultant for the Gerontology Research Group, says Jones died at a senior home in Brooklyn Thursday night. He said she had been ill for the past 10 days. Jones was born in a small farm town […]

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  Jeralean Talley is set in her ways. It happens after living 113 years. Every morning, she drinks black coffee with a little sugar. Talley doesn’t eat cheese because she doesn’t like it and lives by the motto: Treat others the way you want to be treated. “Her mind is good,” said her daughter, Thelma […]