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Refugee Torty leads an epic life By KATHY WEBB

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She's war-wounded, battered and estimated to be well over a century old, but she still turns heads.

She's been run over by a gun carriage, stolen and put in a circus, and once made a bolt for freedom that nearly cost her her life.

Torty is probably also an illegal immigrant and overstayer, although immigration wasn't counting when she arrived in 1918.

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