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When the grandmother of, let’s say a friend, passed away at 96, I was surprised to note the local newspaper mention her age as 106, no doubt due to the politica
by kranner 7y ago
When the grandmother of, let’s say a friend, passed away at 96, I was surprised to note the local newspaper mention her age as 106, no doubt due to the political influence of said friend’s relatives. I didn’t realise at the time that this is a sort of thing people like to brag about.
- jfk13 7y agoYou don't think it was simply an arithmetic mistake by the editor of the local deaths column? Given a birth date of 19xx and a death date of 20xx, an off-by-10 error doesn't sound too far-fetched.
- kranner 7y agoThe family didn’t know her date of birth. They had an estimate of her year of birth because she’d said she was x years old when her first child was born.