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Oct 04, 2019
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Back in April 1980, when I was stationed at the Australian Embassy in Tokyo, I returned from a late-night meeting to turn on the TV to catch up on the news and landed partway through a live interview with a diminutive though sprightly, articulate European woman with white, close-cropped hair.

The interviewer referred to fact that she was 100 years old. T…

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