(This kind of reminds me of that song "One is the loneliest number" All together now sing it I know you know the words)
An Iraqi native has become a U.S. citizen at age 111.Zaya Bashou took the oath of citizenship Friday at her Sterling Heights home, north of Detroit.
An Iraqi native has become a U.S. citizen at age 111.Zaya Bashou took the oath of citizenship Friday at her Sterling Heights home, north of Detroit.
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokeswoman Marilu Cabrera says Bashou was born in 1900 and is the second-oldest person on record to be naturalized.
Bashou credits her longevity to drinking green tea.
Bashou
has been in the United States nine years. She said through an
interpreter that becoming a citizen is something she wanted to do for
her grandchildren and great-grandchildren to remember her by.
She turns 112 in July.
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