# What it must be like to live 93 years

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [November 27, 2002, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-it-must-be-like-to-live-93-years/139116 "2002-11-27T15:39:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2002, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-it-must-be-like-to-live-93-years/139116/21 "2002-11-28T18:54:33Z")

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> Err…if he was 62 in 1939 he would have been 26 in 1903. That’s scarely middle aged. But at least he was well into middle age when passenger airlines got established.

Fair enough. To be honest though, I had 1909 in my head for the Wright Brothers (incorrect!) which would have put him in his 30s.

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**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2002, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-it-must-be-like-to-live-93-years/139116/22 "2002-11-29T00:47:54Z")

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My grandfather, Pa Pa Joe will be 91 next July, earlier today we were outside shoveling snow! He is quite an amazing guy, can fix anything but only has an 8th grade education because he had to leave school at 13 to work in a leather tannery to support his family when my great-grandfather died. He remembers the troops coming bank form World War **One**. I love him very much!

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