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The Complete, Uncensored, Heartbreaking, and Amazing Autobiography of Serach bat Asher, the Oldest Woman in the World
By Andrew Ramer
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As for your third question—I really don’t know why I’ve lived this long. My best guess is that I’m some kind of genetic anomaly. Given all the generations of human history, why couldn’t there have been a slight mutation in the genes of a few scattered individuals, a mutation that allows our cells to keep replicating long long after we should have died? (Not that I or anyone knew about genetics until very recently.) Before I did, my preferred theory about my life was a mystical one, a tale that you may have already heard, as it’s one of the very few stories about me that has been preserved.
When I was still a young girl there was a famine in Canaan. My grandfather Jacob sent two of my uncles down to Egypt to buy grain and other supplies. While they were there they found out that their brother Joseph was not just dead, as they’d long believed, but in a position of importance. You may remember the story from reading the Bible, although what you read there wasn’t exactly what happened.
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