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On the cusp of her 100th birthday, Risa Inglefeld looks back on a life full of hard knocks and shares her secrets to get | dG1feDZJamhHMndwcmM
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00:00I was born in Vienna.
00:04When I look back on my life, I don't know how I did it.
00:11We are going to see my friend Risa, who I've been filming since she was about 85.
00:18Hello!
00:20Hello!
00:21She is 99.
00:24Yay!
00:25My secret to long life is my attitude.
00:28Anything I cannot change, I turn it around and count my blessing.
00:39I have a special book that I want to show you, that my grandfather gave me and wrote in it.
00:47And all the aunts, everybody wrote in that book.
00:52Of course, none of them are there anymore.
00:54They were all taken away by the Nazis and killed.
01:05Whatever part of me this stuff is stored in, or any of the pain that my mom and dad have,
01:12I don't need to hold on to Holocaust pain.
01:16And yet I do.
01:18People are born, and life goes on.
01:24People lay down and die, and life goes on.
01:28It doesn't stop when or because we hurt, or when we're sad.
01:37It doesn't stop when we're disappointed or mad.
01:41Nor does it stop because we may want it to.
01:56Life goes on, with and without us.
01:59Life goes on.
02:00Life goes on, with and without us.
02:01Life goes on, with and without us.
02:02Life goes on, with and without us.
02:03Life goes on, with and without us.
02:04Life goes on, with and without us.
02:05Life goes on, with and without us.
02:06Life goes on, with and without us.
02:07Life goes on, with and without us.
02:08Life goes on, with and without us.
02:09Life goes on, with and without us.
02:10Life goes on, with and without us.
02:11Life goes on, with and without us.
02:12Life goes on, with and without us.
02:13Life goes on, with and without us.
02:14Life goes on, with and without us.
02:15Life goes on, with and without us.
02:16Life goes on, with and without us.
02:17Life goes on, with and without us.
02:18Life goes on, with and without us.
02:19Life goes on, with and without us.

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