María Branyas Morera, born in 1907, now in Guinness record books after death of Lucille Randon, 118, in French town of Toulon
“Order, tranquility, good connection with family and friends, contact with nature, emotional stability, no worries, no regrets, lots of positivity and staying away from toxic people” is what Morera credits with her longevity, according to the Guinness site.
Morera was born in San Francisco on 4 March 1907, a year after her parents moved from Spain to the US. Her family returned to Spain eight years later and brought her along, settling in Catalonia.Her father died from pulmonary tuberculosis on the ocean journey from the US to Spain. The route was circuitous because the first world war made passage through the Nordic seas treacherous, so the ship had to go via Cuba and the Azores, Morera once recalled.
Morera started a family with her husband, a Catalan doctor named Joan Moret, which has given her three children, 11 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. Morera has embraced advances in technology since then, embracing social media and digital communications in particular. Morera uses a voice-to-text device and Twitter to stay in touch with her loved ones.
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