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A 104-year-old Chicago woman ditched her walker and climbed into a plane to become the world's oldest person to tandem skydive — and it wasn't even her first freefall. Dorothy Hoffner first skydived four years ago on her 100th birthday, but she wanted a redo because, she said, she didn't want to be pushed out of the plane, CNBC reported. She wanted to lead the jump. On Sunday, she did just that.
That's where she got the idea for her extreme hobby. She told The New York Times that a friend of hers mentioned that he was going skydiving and that she told him, 'I want to do that.' “It’s fun, and it seemed so nice and peaceful, coming down with a parachute on top of you,” Hoffner said in an interview with CNBC. “You can see the whole countryside; it was so beautiful.
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