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  • !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I think I've done all that I wanted to do.

  • As long as I can be helpful and keep going.

  • That's the main thing.

  • My name is Clifford, but call me Cliff Crozier and I was born on the 6th of September 1915.

  • 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:39,380 Makes me now a hundred and one.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • A spot of whiskey occasionally helps...

  • ...although it's not on National Health.

  • I have a pile of fond memories.

  • 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...

  • ...very very happy to be together because they are such lovely people that they are.

  • 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.

  • I was in Czechoslovakia when I was a young girl...

  • ...and I was living with my grandparents because my father was a prisoner of war.

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • ...because I've done practically everything that I ever wanted to do in the past.

  • I've got beautiful memories you know.

  • I can live happily forever after because of my lovely memories.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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