Bill Gifford

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”

British World War I veteran Henry Allingham attributed his own 113-year lifespan to “cigarettes, whiskey, and wild, wild women.”

And although their number has increased by nearly 50 percent in just two decades, the over-one-hundred age group still represents only about 0.03 percent of the population, or about 1 out of every 3,333 of us.