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‘When you hear everything you hear about coronavirus, and a 99-year-old gets it – she’s 99 so obviously she’s frail – I didn’t think there was any way she would recover from it.The account added jokingly: ‘I don’t know how she got through it. I don’t think she has ever eaten a vegetable or fruit.
‘She lives on marmalade sandwiches and biscuits, but she’s had a terrible diet her entire life. She’s always just eaten chocolates and biscuits.The remains of Mrs Reynolds’ home in Liverpool after being bombed during The Blitz ‘But she’s never smoked or really drank.’ He continued: ‘At the home they always ask her what she wants to eat and joke that they don’t know why they ask her – every day she only ever wants marmalade sandwiches.Mrs Reynolds, who was born in the Isle of Man married her late husband Ralph, a scientist, and they had three children, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Henry added: ‘She wasn’t doing very well. They got the end of life medication prescribed for her, although she didn’t ever take it.
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