Rafael Ángel Leon Leon, 100, who lived at the top of the winding road in the hills above Nicoya. Behind his basic wooden farmhouse, he still grew a garden, harvested his own corn and beans, and kept some livestock. He played the guitar, had an excellent voice, and true to Luis’s observation, fancied himself a lady’s man. He’d had several lovers before he finally married an Indian woman 40 years his junior—when he was 94. • Ofelia Gómez Gómez, who lived with her daughter, son-in-law, and two grandchildren. At 102, she recited from memory a six-minute poem by Pablo Neruda. • Francesca Castillo
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