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Tommy Harrison is exactly 100 years old. He’s a retired engineer. Hiswife, Maude, died 14 years ago. They had no children and now helives alone in his flat in Bristol. Bill has smoked all his life. First hesmoked cigarettes, about 10 a day, but 40 years ago he changed toa pipe. He has only been ill once in his life, and that was just beforethe First World War, when he had rheumatic fever. The only timehe visits his doctor is to get a certificate to say that he can stilldrive his car. Every day he has a full English breakfast - bacon, eggs,toast and marmalade. He has only been abroad once, to Franceduring the war. He says: ‘I still go dancing and swimming but I don’twant to live for ever, perhaps 12 months more. My father lived untilhe was 99.’
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