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ARPad95

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Sun May 24, 2020, 08:25 PM May 2020

102 year old woman named Stella Corona (for real) dies of Covid-19

By Mother’s Day, Stella Corona’s fever had subsided.

She was tough. Corona lived through two World Wars, the Great Depression, the Great Recession, a presidential assassination and 9/11. She made it to 102 years old despite smoking for about 70 of them and later dodging doctors’ recommendations for a pacemaker. For the last 20 years, she’d been telling her kids and grandkids she thought she would die soon and no one believed her.

Corona, feeling the best she felt since being diagnosed with the coronavirus, made the dire prediction again.

“I think the end is coming here,” she told her granddaughter Cathy Boyle on the phone. “I’m tired, I can’t fight this anymore.”


Full article at this link:

[link:https://www.syracuse.com/coronavirus/2020/05/102-year-old-cny-woman-who-died-of-coronavirus-lived-life-bookended-by-pandemics.html|]
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102 year old woman named Stella Corona (for real) dies of Covid-19 (Original Post) ARPad95 May 2020 OP
So sad. sheshe2 May 2020 #1
AND she made it through the 1917 flu pandemic MiniMe May 2020 #2
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