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"I'm not a salad eater or a fruit eater, and if it were true that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, I'd be dead long ago; I don't eat an apple a year." Dr. John Edward Rhetts, 96-year-old retired dentist of Salem, Indiana. "Rhett carries a cane only 'because it makes me look distinguished.'"

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