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A Neatorama reader translates a video clip of the (then) world’s oldest woman:

“Grandmother Sarhat is always happy when her 2 years-old neighbour Nadin gets in her window. They drink tea and eat candies together.

Saahrad says that this child could have been her granddaughter in 7th generation.

Sarhat Rashidova is 131 years old. The proof for this is her passport, which shows the date of birth of 1875. Locals found this fact out during a passport exchange (we had that some years ago), but they believed it only after their own investigation.

The old lady doesn’t have any relatives, her husband died in the 50s and they did not have any children. Sarhat has been living in this clay house all the time. There is only one lamp at the ceiling and no socket in her tiny 2 by 2 meters room.

She was born during the reign of Alexander II, lived in 3 centuries and speaks only in Azerbaijan language:

‘There are not many families in this village now. But I remember the time when there were a lot of people. I lived all the generations over. I have seen tzar’s, Nicolay’s and Soviet times. When my husband died I promissed not to get married again and I kept my word.’

The only memory of her husband that is left is his shirt. Sarhat once sewed it into a pillow-case and sleeps on it for 50 years now.

‘Longevity secret - old lady laughes - there is no such a secret. To live long you should be kind, you should respect the elders, you should work and do only good. Why do women live longer? Because man gives her all his power! My husband cared for me, brought water himself. If a man treats his woman good, the woman will live long.’

Sarhat Rashidova died early this year (January 16, 2007). She was 131 at the time of her death.

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