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Most Will Ignore the First Two Items

Ruth Benjamin of Marshall, Ill., has turned 109 years old, and her doctor says she’s in good health for her age. What’s her secret? “I never smoked a cigarette in my life, I never drank liquor in my life, and I had one husband for 43 years,” she said. Anything else? Yep: bacon. “I love bacon!” (RC/WGN Chicago) ...Of course that won’t work, but plenty of guys will die trying.
Original Publication Date: 19 February 2017
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.

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