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> > Belarus Woman Celebrates 116th Birthday
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> > May 5, 1:52 PM (ET)
> > By YURAS KARMANAU
> > (AP) Belarusian Hanna Barysevich, believed to be the oldest woman in the
> world, is seen at home outside...
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> > MINSK, Belarus (AP) - A woman believed to be the oldest in the world
> celebrated her 116th birthday Wednesday in the former Soviet republic of
> Belarus.
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> > "I'll drink to my own health with pleasure," said Hanna Barysevich, a
> former farm worker who lives in a house outside the Belarusian capital
> Minsk.
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> > "I'm tired of living already, but God still hasn't collected me," she
said
> with a smile.
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> > Barysevich was born on May 5, 1888, in the village of Buda, 37 miles
east
> of Minsk, according to her passport. Her parents were poor, landless
> peasants.
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> > "From my early childhood I didn't know anything but physical labor,"
said
> Barysevich, who never learned to read or write. She worked in a kolkhoz,
or
> collective farm, until age 95, then moved to the house she shares with her
> 78-year-old daughter Nina.
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> > Barysevich lived through the Bolshevik Revolution, two world wars and
the
> collapse of the Soviet Union. The worst period for her was the reign of
> dictator Josef Stalin: Her husband Ippolit was declared an "enemy of the
> people" for allegedly harming the collective farm, arrested and taken to
> Siberia. He was never heard from again.
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> > She raised her three children on her own, including throughout World War
> II, when she used to take her family to the woods outside the village to
> hide from the Nazis.
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> > "A lot of men courted me but I preferred to live on my own," she said.
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> > Today, Barysevich moves with difficulty but unaided. She complains of
> occasional headaches and worsening vision "but nothing else bothers me."
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> > She attributes her longevity to genes: Her paternal grandmother was 113
> when she died. As to diet, Barysevich prefers simple village food:
homemade
> sausages, pork fat, milk and bread.
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> > Daughter Nina said her mother has a good appetite, a tough character and
> very strong nerves.
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> > "Throughout my long life, I understood that it isn't worth it to get
upset
> and take everything too close to the heart," Barysevich said.
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> > For her birthday, she hoped for a raise in her monthly pension, equal to
> about $50, and a chance to go to a Catholic church for confession.
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> > Last month, the Guinness Book of Records recognized a 114-year-old
Puerto
> Rican as the world's oldest living woman. Barysevich said she'd never
> thought of applying for the distinction.
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