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jakeXT

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Fri Nov 21, 2014, 01:05 PM Nov 2014

100-year-old sees ocean for first time

Just weeks before turning 101, Ruby Holt has seen the ocean for the first time.

Ruby spent most of her life on a farm in rural Tennessee picking cotton and said she never had the time or money to go to a beach.

The assisted living centre where she lives along with a charity which grants wishes to elderly people, called Wish of a Lifetime, paid for her to visit the Gulf of Mexico and experience walking on a beach and feeling waves on her feet for the first time.


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30141432 (video)

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100-year-old sees ocean for first time (Original Post) jakeXT Nov 2014 OP
beautiful…. dhill926 Nov 2014 #1
Yes. appalachiablue Dec 2014 #2
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