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Meet Violet, the new ‘world’s oldest person’

The oldest person in the world is now Violet Mosse Brown, a 117-year-old woman from Jamaica.

Congratulations, Violet!

Known as ‘Aunt V’ to friends, she was born in Trelawney on March 10, 1900 and has lived there all of her phenomenally long life.
After celebrating her 110th milestone, she told a local paper: ‘Really and truly, when people ask what me eat and drink to live so long, I say to them that I eat everything, except pork and chicken, and I don’t drink rum and dem tings.

‘You know, sometimes I ask myself, ‘Am I really 110 years old?’ because I don’t feel like 110.’

Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness tweeted his congratulations:
She once told the Jamaica Observer that she ‘likes fish and mutton and sometimes she will have cow foot.’
A staunch contributor to her church, she said ‘My faith in serving God, and believing strongly in the teaching of the bible’ helped her reach such a long age.

Her eldest son is almost a centenarian (almost 100) himself, and is believed to be the oldest human to have a parent still living.

Violet succeeds Italy’s Emma Morano as the world’s oldest person.
Emma was the last person whose life spanned three centuries, from 1899 to 2017, and had an more unusual recipe for long life – staying single and eating raw egg every day.

Queen Elizabeth II sent Violet a plaque to commemorate her longevity when she became the oldest citizen of the Commonwealth – and as well as that, she holds the record as the last living subject of Queen Victoria.

In her early life, she worked as a plantation worker cutting sugar cane and working as a maid as a survivor of ‘post slavery’ according to the family.
As time went on she purchased her own property and became an entrepreneur, owning the only bread depot in the district.


Wont you say congrats to Aunt V ??.

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