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IN PICTURES: This 117 year-old woman who plays guitar, loves pets, may be the world's oldest person

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In this Aug. 23, 2018 photo, great-grandniece Rosa Lucas helps her 117-year-old aunt Julia Flores Colque go for a walk outside her home in Sacaba, Bolivia. The Sacaba mayor's office has named Flores Colque a living heritage. The office and a private foundation have improved her home, building the brick path where she walks, and a shower and toilet with a railing so the centenarian can safely make her way to the bathroom at night. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
In this Aug. 23, 2018 photo, great-grandniece Rosa Lucas helps her 117-year-old aunt Julia Flores Colque go for a walk outside her home in Sacaba, Bolivia. The Sacaba mayor's office has named Flores Colque a living heritage. The office and a private foundation have improved her home, building the brick path where she walks, and a shower and toilet with a railing so the centenarian can safely make her way to the bathroom at night. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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117-year-old Julia Flores Colque plays with
117-year-old Julia Flores Colque plays with "Chiquita," one of the family pet dogs, while sitting outside her home in Sacaba, Bolivia. Flores Colque, who never married or had children, enjoys the company of her dogs, cats and rooster. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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Julia Flores Colque, behind right, poses for a photo with her grandniece Agustina Berna, left, and her great-grandniece Rosa Lucas at their home in Sacaba, Bolivia. In her long life, Julia has witnessed two world wars, revolutions in her native Bolivia and the transformation of her rural town of Sacaba from 3,000 people to a bustling city of more than 175,000 people in just five decades. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
Julia Flores Colque, behind right, poses for a photo with her grandniece Agustina Berna, left, and her great-grandniece Rosa Lucas at their home in Sacaba, Bolivia. In her long life, Julia has witnessed two world wars, revolutions in her native Bolivia and the transformation of her rural town of Sacaba from 3,000 people to a bustling city of more than 175,000 people in just five decades. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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 Colque and her cat
Colque and her cat "Minina" sit outside their home in Sacaba, Bolivia. Flores Colque's longevity is striking in Bolivia, which still has one of South America's highest levels of mortality, according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, the U.N.'s regional arm. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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Colque holds a
Colque holds a "charango," a small Andean stringed instrument, at her home in Sacaba, Bolivia. Flores Colque still sings in her indigenous Quechua tongue and strums the five strings of her tiny Andean guitar. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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117-year-old Julia Flores Colque eyes the camera while sitting outside her home in Sacaba, Bolivia. Her national identity card says Flores Colque was born on Oct. 26, 1900 in a mining camp in the Bolivian mountains. At 117 and just over 10 months, she would be the oldest woman in the Andean nation and perhaps the oldest living person in the world. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
117-year-old Julia Flores Colque eyes the camera while sitting outside her home in Sacaba, Bolivia. Her national identity card says Flores Colque was born on Oct. 26, 1900 in a mining camp in the Bolivian mountains. At 117 and just over 10 months, she would be the oldest woman in the Andean nation and perhaps the oldest living person in the world. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
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