Meet America's Oldest Woman: Adele Dunlap

I'm sure Adele Dunlap has never heard of Drake and probably doesn't listen to much music one days but she has taken the slogan "you only live once" to heart. After the death of Goldie Michelson, of Worcester, Massachusetts, Adele became the country's oldest woman alive.
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Years ago the rapper Drake introduced one of the world's most popular acronyms to date: Yolo. What exactly does Yolo means? It means you only live once. It was first heard in his single Motto and it has most popular been used by people as a way to encourage them to be the most adventurous they can possibly be because you only have one life to live.

I'm sure Adele Dunlap has never heard of Drake and probably doesn't listen to much music one days but she has taken the slogan "you only live once" to heart. After the death of Goldie Michelson, of Worcester, Massachusetts, Adele became the country's oldest woman alive.

While many would assume there were things you can do to make yourself continue to look young and gracefully Ms. Dunlap doesn't have any secrets as to why she has still not aged. In fact, she said "she doesn't feel any different." Her son was even asked if perhaps his mom was refraining from sharing her aging secrets and he too was shocked that she had lived this long as he talked about her diet and years of smoking with her now deceased father.

So what exactly is Ms. Dunlap's secret? No one may ever know but one thing is for sure Ms. Dunlap is still a lady who takes pride in telling strangers she's only 102 because a real woman never shares her age, right?

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