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Consolata Melis, who will turn 105 on tomorrow, poses with her nine children, 24 grand-children and 25 great-grandchildren, outside her house in Perdasdefogu village on the island of Sardinia on August 21, 2012. The Melis family are officially the world's oldest with nine brothers and sisters clocking up a total of 818 years between them. AFP PHOTO/ Ettore Loi (Photo credit should read ETTORE LOI/AFP/Getty Images)