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Maryland’s oldest resident, a fan of crosswords and Scrabble, plans to live to be 150
America just turned 248 years old. Mary Payne Franklin has been alive nearly half that long. Franklin, of Chestertown, is 111, although, to a reporter, she won’t admit it. “I don’t tell my age,” she said coyly. Then, the onetime English teacher returned to …