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They’re friends. They’re both 109. Here are their secrets

IOL · 26 August 2026 at 11:19

They’re friends. They’re both 109. Here are their secrets

Just 0.03 percent of Americans live into their 100s.

But Boggess is lucky enough that one of them is her friend of more than eight decades, Velma Long.

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