Secret of a long life
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* Alan Blum

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> I asked her the secret of her long life. She
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> thought a few seconds and then said:

> I tended a cow,
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> and I’d be out in the open a lot.
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> Was name’ Mollie.

> She also said:

> That doctor I saw
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> didn’t know anything about polio.
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> Said it just weren’t her generation
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> to know anything about it.
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> I can’t remember that doctor’s name,
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> as many bills as I got from her.

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