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She drives a convertible and bowls her age: 100, to be exact

Lillian Solomon tools around Los Angeles in a sexy silver-blue convertible, has a live-in boyfriend, plays blackjack at the Hollywood Park Casino, goes to the gym on Mondays and anchors her bowling team on Wednesdays.

None of which would be all that remarkable except that Wednesday is Lillian's birthday.

She turned 100.

"We've been living in sin for 25 years," Lillian told me on a recent visit to the West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs campus, where she works out with boyfriend Eddie Huyffer, a World War II veteran and chipper young chap of 99.

Lillian and Eddie were in a bit of a funk. The VA

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