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105-year-old Texas man gets ready to witness his 13th solar eclipse: ‘I always want to see the next one’

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A 105-year-old Texas-based man is officially gearing up to see his 13th solar eclipse on 8 April.

LaVerne Biser opened up about the upcoming opportunity to see the highly-anticipated event from his hometown during a recent interview with People. His comments came as a total eclipse of the sun is set to plunge a stretch of North America into darkness on 8 April, with the lure of up to four minutes of midday darkness in Texas and other spots.

Speaking to , Biser, including his first one in 1963 with their three children.

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