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You're never too old to learn

Ma Xiuxian, aged 102, has become the world's oldest first-year pupil. She started work in a cotton mill at the age of 13 and never got the chance to go to school as a child.   This inspirational lady says taking her place at her desk in the Grade One class at Weshan Road Elementary School in China was a dream come true.

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