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As long as I can be helpful and keep going.
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That’s the main thing.
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My name is Clifford, but call me Cliff Crozier and I was born on the 6th of September 1915. Makes me now a hundred and one.
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born in Birkenhead in the Wirral, Cheshire. Apart from the war and the time I was at college, I’ve been everywhere in my life. I’ve been retired now for thirty-eight years.
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It always pleases me though that I can keep robbing the government with my pension. hmm It’s just that you keep going. It’s only a number. A hundred and one is only a number and you live for the day.
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A spot of whiskey occasionally helps… …although it’s not on National Health.
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I have a pile of fond memories.
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I sometimes sit down in my chair and think of my past, and I try to sort of reorganize the story about these people that I have got in my mind and mix them up together first, and then pair them all. (laughs) And I think there are quite a few people out there that would be…
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…very very happy to be together because they are such lovely people that they are.
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Amelia Tereza Harper. Tereza, It’s Tereza because it’s Czechoslovakian. A hundred and three, my goodness me. Three is my lucky number. I have always been lucky. I’ve never been unlucky, touch wood. Oh, there’s wood underneath there.
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I was in Czechoslovakia when I was a young girl…
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…and I was living with my grandparents because my father was a prisoner of war.
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We came over to England to be with our father when he was released from the war. Everything makes me happy. I love talking to people. I like doing things. I like going out shopping.
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Once I go out shopping I don’t want to come back. (laughs) I don’t think there’s anything I really need to do…
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…because I’ve done practically everything that I ever wanted to do in the past. I’ve got beautiful memories you know.
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I can live happily forever after because of my lovely memories.