I do this now :/

Supernova many many years from now:

From Signora Morano’s Wiki page -

In Montgomery AL her grandparents were almost definitely slaves, if not her father or uncles/aunts. The civil war was not that long ago. You go the South and people in their 80's 90's grew up with their grandfather’s telling them war stories. I remember an old man in Georgia just going off on what the Union did do his…

Yeah, if you look at that photo board there’s a picture from 1939...she was FORTY in 1939. It’s hard to comprehend.

Some of the older people in her family (when she was a little girl) most likely remembered slavery or were former slaves themselves; contrasting that with all that has come since must have been really remarkable.

What a wild time, too. Even just looking at my grandparents and the things they've seen in their 83 and 84 years on earth. My grandma didn't have a toilet in her house when she was born and now she has a Facebook account.

Brooklyn, NY late 1800s

I hope she did enjoy those last years, though. Now that centenarians are more common, you see more families trying to keep them going to get to that 100 year mark. My grandmother lived to be 98, and my mother did all she could to keep “bringing her back” every time she started to slip away. I’d get calls: “Well,…

Which means Emma Morano from Italy is now the last human on Earth born in the 1800s.

Wow, to have your life span 3 centuries...it’ll be another 84 years before someone else can make that claim. Whole generations will have passed by then.

What a life! Seeing planes go from novelty inventions to fucking space travel, two world wars, etc. I can’t quite get over the fact that she would have been middle-aged by the time World War 2 rolled around.

can’t confirm or deny (yes)

My grandmother insisted she was 33 until I learned how to math and was like ‘shit doesn’t add up.’

My great grandmother never got a drivers license because she didn’t want any documentation of her real age. She wasn’t old Hollywood but she was East Coast aristocracy and had married a man younger than her. While this was always suspected, I wasn’t able to confirm it until I pulled some census records from when she…

Funny, when I read about her being 25 my initial reaction wasn’t “but she doesn’t look it” it was “GODDAMNIT SHE’S DONE SO MUCH MORE THAN ME IN THE SAME SPAN OF TIIIIME”

I do not want her to be my peer. I want her to be my GOALZ.

I can see the logic in actresses doing this if they don’t hit their big break until they’re already in their 30s. They have to know that they’ll be dealing with a pretty short window to make their money. Didn’t Jessica Chastain try something similar a couple of years ago, only to be contradicted by a yearbook photo?

this doesn’t surprise me, when I worked for a well known TV studio in the casting department my boss cast her in a pilot and if she actually was 19 at the time there’s no way she would have cast her-too green.

You had to figure something was up when Leonardo DiCaprio didn’t date her.

“Defended an accused child rapist, then laughed about his lenient sentence.”