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buzzycrumbhunger

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1. I saw Alt Natl Parks post about her this morning

Reply to malaise (Original post)

Mon Dec 22, 2025, 10:07 PM

Dec 2025

Didn’t catch her age there or whether she was still working. She was just a wee thing, and it made me smile and think of my gran, who was still pushing a lawn mower and working in her big vegetable garden at 96. What role models!

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Betty Reid Soskin, who became a park ranger at 85, dies aged 104 [View all] malaise Dec 2025 OP

I saw Alt Natl Parks post about her this morning buzzycrumbhunger Dec 2025 #1

Lucky you -Neither of my grandmas reached 80 malaise Dec 2025 #2