World's Oldest Person Dies at Age 116

Reblogged from FOX8.com:

By Steve Almasy, CNN

(CNN) -- Before women gained the right to vote in 1920, Besse Cooper joined the suffrage movement.

Then 24, the Georgia school teacher registered women to vote and spoke to others about the importance of having a voice in politics.

Cooper voted in every election after the 19th Amendment was passed, save for two.

She died Tuesday, at age 116, only one of eight people recognized by the Guinness World Records to have lived that long.

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Bless her soul

You’ve Got Me Walking in the Rain

Wild Nights

Wild Nights–Wild Nights!

Were I with thee

Wild Nights should be

Our luxury!

Futile—the winds—-

To a Heart in port—-

Done with the Compass—Done with the Chart!

Rowing in Eden—-

Ah, the Sea!

Might I but moor—-Tonight—-

In Thee!

—–Emily Dickinson

“Love is a crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it.” —-W.B. Yeats