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Headline is bullshit - she was no eye witness of the Titanic desaster.

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I bet she wasn’t in the rail car for the armistice either.

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I bet she didn’t literally see the signing of the Treaty of Versailles either. /s

You can be witness to world events without literally being there and looking at them with your eyes.

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She was… she was the iceberg.

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Prove she wasn’t there!

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She fled the scene with her iceberg accomplice

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How do you know she didn’t change her name? Maybe after witnessing the armistice in the rail car, she had to go into hiding because they all figured out she was a spy on the Titanic.

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And here for he to live long enough to vote in the first black female president and out live Trump.

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She was at that Irish dance party tho, if you look real close you can see her in the back.

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Not going to lie. 115 years as a black woman in the deep south sounds like Hell

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On the other hand, think of how many racist pieces of shit that treated her badly in her life that she outlived.

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Yeah. A bigger deal than the titanic is that she most likely met people who fought for the south in the Civil War. It ended in 1865, only 44 years before she was born. An 18 year old soldier in the civil war would have been about 62 when she was born. They would have been old men, but she probably ran into a few of them in her life.

Aside from that, the Tulsa Race Massacre would have happened when she was a pre-teen. Her teenage years would have been filled with countless stories of lynchings. Then she would have had to deal with the great depression in her 20s, then WWII in her 30s.

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You typoed the year the civil war ended by a hundred years.

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Oops, thanks!

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She puts my teeth to shame. How do I get a smile like that? 😁

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Dentures

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Have as much excess wealth as this lady does

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Owned a coffee shop, took the bus to work. What a fat cat. She’s probably not even rocking $500, base model dentures like the rest of us centenarians.

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I thought they were expensive based on how nice they look

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When did you get a look at her bank balance?

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Elizabeth Francis says the key to living a long life is to ‘speak your mind and don’t hold your tongue’

We should respect our elders!

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Title made me think she was on one of the life boats and saw the titanic sank.

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