Want to Be 100?Listen to These 5 Centenarians（百岁老人）

Five neighbors at acentral Missouriretirement community who are all centenarians get asked all the timE.“How didyou live to be 100?”

If you want to liveto 100 or more,this rare group of five golden girls says the key to longevity （长寿）is working hard at a job you loveand taking care of your body while

you're at it.

Even though anestimated 70,000 people in the country are currently at the century mark orbeyond in age,it is unusual to find five 100-year-olds living in one place.

The averagelife-span（寿命）of Americansis about two or three years short of an 80th birth-day party.And most peopledon't want to cut out

coffee,soda,alcohol,cigarettes,andeat healthy food.

“People tellme all the time,‘I don't want to live to be 100,'”said Mildred Leaver,whoturned 100 in June.

“I thinkthat's just sad.Aging is attitude and I don't feel old,”said Leaver,a formereducator who still drives her Buick around town.

It doesn't take longto see that Leaver and her neighbors Mildred Harris,Grace Woffson, GladysStuart and Viola Semas,have a lot more in common than their longevity and

lifelong healthyhabits .All are 100 except Stuart,who is 10

Even though theirsight and hearing aren't what they used to be,they've all avoided illnessesthat many elderly people are stricken with.It's been 50 years since Leaver beat

cancer for the firstand only time.

The common threadthat connects these women is the decades of service to jobs each loved as afarmer,designer,school principal,bookkeeper and secretary.In the early years

of their lives,gainfully employed women like them were just as rare as 100-year-old are today.None of the fivecentenarians have any children.

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