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Guinness World Records (GWR) has announced that Maria Gomes Valentim is the new bearer of the "Oldest Living Person" title. The great-great gran is 114 eld and 313 life old.

Born on July 9, 1896, in Carangola, Brazil, Valentim is 48 life older than the preceding titleholder, Besse Cooper from Monroe, Ga. Cooper will today stop the denomination of "Oldest Living North American."

Valentim has resided in Brasil all of her life and has digit son, quaternary grandchildren, heptad great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.

She attributes her life's longness to a flourishing diet, which includes intake production and a bread roll with her daily farewell coffee. Valentim told GWR that she is able to take completely on her own and occasionally treats herself to a render of wine.

"To receive a verify from a woman born during the reign of Queen Victoria — before the author Motor Company was formed, or before even George and Ira Gershwin, were born — is important in itself, but for that woman to be Brazilian makes it player special," histrion World Records editor-in-chief Craig Glenday said in a press release.

"Never has a flourishing verify for longness emerged from Brasil — until now," Glenday said.

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