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A week after jumping from a plane at age 104 — her second skydive since becoming a centenarian — Dorothy Hoffner is already thinking about her next adventure. A hot air balloon ride would be nice, she says. Her birthday is in December, so a visitor points out it’s impressive she’s almost 105. “Please don’t make me any older than I am,” Hoffner tells TODAY.com. “ just normal. I don’t feel any older. I don’t know how you’re supposed to feel when you’re 104.
Other centenarians have credited their independence for living longer. Emma Morano, an Italian woman who lived to be 117, was single for most of her life. “I didn’t want to be dominated by anyone,” she told The New York Times. Jessie Gallan, a Scottish woman who lived to be 109, never married and said that was her secret to a long life. Longevity runs in her family Hoffner’s mother lived to be 92. Her father died in his 80s. “Men have no stamina.
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