Brothers,
When you have a moment, please read this inspirational and uplifting story. The
piece only takes about five minutes to read. ****WORTH IT*****
(BTW)
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/nyregion/new-jersey-lucia-declerck-covid.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytmetro
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Ask Lucia DeClerck how she has lived to be 105, and she is quick with an answer.
“Prayer. Prayer. Prayer,” she offers. “One step at a time. No junk food.”
But surviving the coronavirus, she said, also may have had something to do with
another staple: the nine gin-soaked golden raisins she has eaten each morning
for most of her life.
“Fill a jar,” she explained. “Nine raisins a day after it sits for nine days.”
Her children and grandchildren recall the ritual as just one of Ms. DeClerck’s
endearing lifelong habits, like drinking aloe juice straight from the container
and brushing her teeth with baking soda. (That worked, too: She did not have a
cavity until she was 99, relatives said.)
