Imagine being nearly 120 years old. Almost a century and a quarter of living, loving, experiencing deep joy and personal disappointments — and observing a dramatically changing world over that period of time.

“My word, I’m as old as the hills,” Morano said.

The oldest living person in the world, Emma Morano, lives in Verbania, Italy. She is closing in on 117 years old — perched now at the 116 years-and-172-days-old mark, according to Guinness World Records. She was born on November 29, 1899, making her the only living person whose life has spanned three centuries.

Morano gained the title of oldest living person after New Yorker Susannah Mushatt Jones, 116 years old, passed away on May 12 after a 10-day illness.

Back in Italy, Morano shares a secret with the fictional American boxer Rocky Balboa: She eats two raw eggs every day (she recently cut back from three a day). This is a habit carried over from her teens, when a doctor treated her for anemia, she told The New York Times last year.

Besides eggs, Morano also attributes her longevity to her marital status — she’s single. Although she had many “suitors” after an unhappy marriage that ended in 1938, she never remarried.

“I didn’t want to be dominated by anyone,” she told The Times.

When told that she is now the oldest living person in the world, her answer was simple and a bit awestruck — “My word, I’m as old as the hills,” she told The Telegraph.

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Since the passing of Mushatt Jones, the oldest living U.S. citizen now hails from the New England city of Worcester, Massachusetts.

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Goldie Michelson is the oldest person in America, as well as the oldest Jewish person in the world, according to Clark University in Worcester, Michelson’s alma mater. (She graduated back in 1936 and is 113 now, turning 114 in August.)

Michelson gave an interview to Clark University in 2012, when she was only 110. The university recently republished the article to celebrate her new title.

She was asked about the secret of longevity. Her answer? Walking — and chocolate.

“I was a great walker,” she told Clark University. “Four or five miles every morning, weather permitting. I never used a car if I could walk. One of the great joys of my life was when I sold my car.”

Michelson also never smoked or drank — her appetites ran toward the sweet stuff.

“Lots of chocolate,” she told the university of her indulgences.

Michelson was born in Russia in 1902, The Boston Globe reported, and she immigrated to Worcester when she was two years old. Her great-granddaughter graduated from Clark in 2014, following in the footsteps of her great-grandmother.