In Her 102nd Year, a High School Diploma
<i> Reuters</i>
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico —
Eighty-six years after quitting school to take a job in a silent-movie theater, Ana Maria Osorio became a high school graduate this month at age 102.
The great-great-grandmother said she wanted her diploma so she could work at a local preschool.
“They need someone to tell them stories--nobody tells the children stories anymore,” she told the San Juan Star on Monday.
Molina was the oldest of a group of elderly students who received their high school diplomas last week after taking graduate equivalency classes.
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