Stories and News No. 981 Harold Fairweather , 97 years old , died yesterday in Duanvale, Jamaica, two days after his mother, Violet Brown , 117 years , was declared the oldest person in the world . A victorious final, in some ways... Mother. My dear mother, I know it's unexpected, I realize it. The rules of the living tale require something else. Timing is queen, as you have been in my heart and now for the whole world. Just in the matter of time, look as foolish as fate is. Sometimes it rewards and brings the daughter of such poor area of the planet to the highest podium, making here undisputed sovereign of the world’s wealthy myth, looking behind and seeing everyone else groping at painstaking steps or jumping in vain on the edge of sparkling cars. Nevertheless, the broken norm is quite another and I, just myself, am accountable for it. Mother. Please, dear mom, forget the unforeseen breach of the protocol, but I chose to leave the scene before the due. Before you...
by Alessandro Ghebreigziabiher