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Stuttgart (dpa) - Mina Hehn, a Swabian woman in the book, celebrated her 108th birthday this Saturday - of course, Corona-compliant.
To celebrate the day there was carnival cakes, baked by her daughter (82), the only real guest in the Stuttgart nursing home.
Your secret for old age and your mental fitness?
“I can do without,” she says in the first interview of her life.
No alcohol, no cigarettes, no chocolate, but a lot of work and walking.
Her grandchildren said that grandma's self-discipline could be learned from.
She is a real Swabian, says Mina: "First you have to create and when there is money, you can keep it together."
Anyone who talks to the old lady will inevitably get into mental arithmetic.
She was five years old when the Spanish flu spread in 1918.
And now the next epidemic at the end of her long life.
After all, grandchildren and great-grandchildren could catch a glimpse of the “birthday child” on the terrace that belongs to the room in the nursing home.
The old lady delayed moving into a home for as long as possible.
At 105 she was still largely self-sufficient within her own four walls.
Whether she is afraid of dying: «A bissle, yes.
That is something uncertain.
But wait a minute, I'll tell you then. "
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