Why do we remember the longevity of Bob Hope, who lived to be 100 years and two months of age, less vividly than, say, Betty White, who fell just short of a century, passing on eighteen days before her 100th birthday?
These people meet up in a little luncheonette in Heaven called Club 99: Betty, Bob Barker, Billy Graham, Prince Philip, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Rose Marie Bentley.
No, not that Rose Marie from the Dick Van Dyke Show (speaking of people who saw 100 candles!) Rose Marie Bentley was a woman from New York who died at 99 in 2018 - and not until her death did anyone realize that all of her vital organs, except for her heart, were in the mirror image of where they were supposed to be. This happens to one person in 50 million. It's called situs inversus with levocardia, this condition where your whatsis is where your whosit ought to be, and vice versa.
I'm guessing that Ms Bentley, who is said to have lived a hale and hearty life, never posed for X-rays or MRIs. Her condition was discovered by a team doing an autopsy as an assignment in medical school.
Little-known fact: It was from Rose Marie Bentley that we get the expression, "...but her heart was in the right place..."
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