Her name is Dolores Agra Rodríguez, but all those who know her say Loli and know about her that when she is just 14 years old, she is now 78, she started to report to Social Security . Therefore, now this businesswoman will reach retirement with the merit of being the woman with more time quoted .

In her shop in Coruña, Lingerie Marta - the commercial name is that of her daughter, a bank retiree -, this Galician-haired woman attests to why she is one of the glories of an activity that took root very soon in Spain.

He has enough resolve to move with great agility between gowns, nightgowns, pajamas, socks, socks and various corsetry. In his small shop window he shows a colorful poster that reads, "Liquidation for retirement" , with discounts on bed linen, dresses, interiors and bathroom.

Since February 2019, it serves its customers. His situation is active retirement, and in the same month next year he will get the final one and will be his son Ricardo, who now helps him, who stays ahead, " until everything is liquidated, which is much that needs to be liquidate . "

At the moment, she feels that it is necessary in this establishment that opened the eighties recently, but before that she had already been working in a similar company, in which she was paid 150 pesetas. He also remembers how in a previous job he was paid 12 pesetas and in black.

"I needed the money, in my house it was necessary ," he says and celebrates that in his career as a freelancer he has always done very well and, above all, that he has enjoyed "good health".

The precarious economy of his home is behind his beginnings at such an early age , because with irony he says that "small" remains, "with many years, but small", alluding to his stature. And, using the same sarcasm and the fact that he has not had illnesses, he jokes that she is one of those who claims the saying of "a woman who is a woman, a woman forever".

Now he wants to enjoy existence and small pleasures, like coffee, because travel has already done so, and enough . "I traveled a lot when my children were young. Every year we went to Paris; my oldest granddaughter now works there," he explains.

The work in which they made his first contract was similar to the one he later ran, only that at that time "buttons, threads, lace, thimbles, small things were sold, it was sewn a lot ... And some lingerie, but little ", nothing to do with the present, accurate.

Dolores, Loli, sports the Silver Medal of Merit at Work on one of the walls of this building full of coat racks, boxes and shelves, dated September 13, 2016.

When they told him that they were going to grant him this decoration, his son believed that he was a guasa. But it was not so, the recognition was for Loli, the one with lively eyes, the one of the retail trade of the Avenue of the Passage, in the roundabout of the Castros de A Coruña. And although shy, she went to the act of handing over the medal, something so deserved after her neat contribution to the public pension system.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

  • Spain
  • Paris
  • Social Security

Pedro Sánchez's Investigation Policy: Slapping Netflix, plus public spending and no explanation of how it will finance it

CataloniaThe fight against the sale of counterfeits "has been lost in Barcelona due to the mismanagement of Ada Colau"

Events Five men are detained for raping a woman in Benidorm as a group