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The Three-Century Woman

Story Stats

Rating: 4
Grade Level: 5
Page count: 10

Author

Richard
Peck

Appeared in

Second Sight: Stories for a New Millennium.

Story Summary

In 2001, a TV crew comes to interview a woman born in 1899 because she has lived in three centuries. When she realizes that they are interested only in her memories she makes up some good ones including having survived the explosion of the Hindenburg.