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09/02/2026 6:42 pm
Hello there, everybody, my name is Joana and I'm from Portugal; I originally joined this forum all the way back in 2023 but never got around to actually becoming an active member. After years of occasional lurking, I finally decided to "resurrect" this account.
I remember first becoming aware of supercentenarians back in 1997 (I was only 6 at the time), when my maternal grandmother showed me a newspaper article about the death of Jeanne Calment. I then had a brief period of interest during the early 2010s, which resurfaced in the 2020s, when, as mentioned above, I became a lurker in this forum and started following news about supercentenarians more closely. Perhaps not coincidentally (the two areas do end up having some overlap), actively starting genealogical research happened around the same time (circa late 2022).
Hoping to find my place as a member of this community, now that I've finally come out of "hiding"!
(By the way, if anyone's wondering, the letters in my username tie back into the genealogical research interest: MMN and MADV are the initials of two of my great-grandparents, the parents of the aforementioned grandmother.)
When the young commander of the guard declared his love for her, she rejected him simply because his frivolity startled her. "See how simple he is," she told Amaranta. "He says that he’s dying because of me, as if I were a bad case of colic."
-One Hundred Years of Solitude
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09/02/2026 8:12 pm
Welcome to the Global Supercentenarian Forum, Joana!
You are one of the active members from Portugal, as you can see here: https://globalsupercentenarianforum.com/index.php/community/livingroom/members-from-all-over-the-world/#post-40796
http://www.supercentenariditalia.it/persone-viventi-piu-longeve-in-italia.
Persone viventi più longeve in Italia – Supercentenari d'Italia (supercentenariditalia.it)
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09/02/2026 8:43 pm
@ale76 Thank you! 😀
As great as it is to be part of a community from all over the world, it is always nice to learn that there are other Portuguese members around (it is actually a bit of a running joke over here to say that there's always someone from Portugal involved everywhere, no matter how small this country might be).
When the young commander of the guard declared his love for her, she rejected him simply because his frivolity startled her. "See how simple he is," she told Amaranta. "He says that he’s dying because of me, as if I were a bad case of colic."
-One Hundred Years of Solitude
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10/02/2026 11:36 am
Hi Joanna - from down in Australia.
Welcome to our forum and I hope you enjoy your time here.
Kind regards
Chris
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10/02/2026 11:41 am
@chrisr Thank you so much! 🙂
When the young commander of the guard declared his love for her, she rejected him simply because his frivolity startled her. "See how simple he is," she told Amaranta. "He says that he’s dying because of me, as if I were a bad case of colic."
-One Hundred Years of Solitude
10/02/2026 3:56 pm
Hi Joana!
Welcome to our forum. I'm happy to see another portuguese in this forum!
Eu também sou português!
ESO Correspondent for Portugal
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10/02/2026 3:59 pm
@gabriel_pt Muito obrigada! Como eu mencionei acima, como se costuma dizer, há sempre portugueses em todo o lado! 😉
When the young commander of the guard declared his love for her, she rejected him simply because his frivolity startled her. "See how simple he is," she told Amaranta. "He says that he’s dying because of me, as if I were a bad case of colic."
-One Hundred Years of Solitude
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10/02/2026 8:30 pm
Welcome to the forum, Joana! 😀
Overduidelijk misschien.
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10/02/2026 9:09 pm
@marco Thank you! 🙂
When the young commander of the guard declared his love for her, she rejected him simply because his frivolity startled her. "See how simple he is," she told Amaranta. "He says that he’s dying because of me, as if I were a bad case of colic."
-One Hundred Years of Solitude
10/02/2026 10:08 pm
Bemvinda ao fórum, Joana! Eu tambem sou da Iberia, mais da vizinha Espanha. Eu posso falar um pouco de português.
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10/02/2026 10:11 pm
@siam Obrigada! 🙂 Acho que nos acabamos por entender melhor em português, o meu espanhol não é muito bom. 😳
When the young commander of the guard declared his love for her, she rejected him simply because his frivolity startled her. "See how simple he is," she told Amaranta. "He says that he’s dying because of me, as if I were a bad case of colic."
-One Hundred Years of Solitude
