Chicagoan Ruth Adler will be 110 years old on Jan 11, 2015 - We have hired Spank Daddy & Aldo to do a Happy Birthday Strip-A-Gram for her....

I am not even half her age and I can't keep my place that clean!

PHOTO: Ruth Adler, who will turn 110 on Jan. 11, lives in a North Side apartment. She is hard of hearing and needs a walker to get around but otherwise is in relatively good health.

CHICAGO  - Ruth Adler reads three newspapers a day, lives in a comfy lakefront condo and is about to achieve elite status beyond most people's imagining, let alone reach.

On Jan. 11, as confirmed by her Cook County birth certificate, she will turn 110 years old.

Turn it around in your mind. A century plus a decade. When she talks about her brother's death in the war, she is talking about World War I.

It is remarkable enough when someone turns 100, much less anything older. My own mother will turn 101 in a few weeks, to my fascination and amazement.

But at 110, Adler will join the tiny demographic slice dubbed supercentenarians. There were only 77 people validated as having reached the age of 110 living in the world as of September, according to the Gerontology Research Group.

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