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🇨🇱 100-year-old ballerina still teaching in Chile "Even in my dreams, I dance," says Evelyn Cordero. The 100-year-old opened her Santiago dance school in 1994. Despite reaching age 100, she has no plans to hang up her ballet shoes yet.
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