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Vivian Hempel likes to keep active. She works out for 45 minutes three times a week, line dances weekly and tends a large community garden as well as her own landscaped lawn. While she’s not that different from many other active adults, Hempel is 98-years-old. “I’m never sick, I never have a cold,” she told the Star Tribune, adding, “Oh, my back bothers me. I have other little aches and so on.” She takes only one medication — a pill prescribed when doctors installed a pacemaker a few years ago over her mild objections, as she had experienced no serious heart problems. It’s also worth noting that she is a breast cancer survivor, and has also survived a fractured hip, but she mentions these almost as an afterthought. It’s not that she’s absentminded; she simply treats them as minor setbacks, pushed aside in favor of more interesting things – like hooping it up at her neighborhood Curves Fitness Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. Owner Sue Ungewitter stated simply, “She’s our guiding light.”

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