Chile: Born in 1896 and still going: meet the world's oldest man (probably)

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Born in 1896 and still going: meet the world's oldest man (probably)

When Marta Ramírez agreed at age 63 to take in a destitute nonagenarian, she didn’t see it as a long-term imposition.

The man’s house had burned down, he had no one else and he looked frail.

“He was 99, I didn’t think he’d be around that much longer,” Ramírez recalls.

She is now 85, and her long-term guest, Celino Villaneuva Jaramillo, is 121 – very probably the world’s oldest man.

Continued at: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/06/born-in-1896-and-still-going-meet-the-worlds-oldest-man-probably