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TIL the supercentenarian Lucile Randon, who died in 2023 at the age of 118, had a twin sister named Lydie who passed away in 1905 at just 18 months old. Lucile used to say in interviews that she was living "two lives"—her own and that of her twin sister, who died when she was still a baby.

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