A week away from turning 99 years old, Frances Kolarek has a long view of life and presidential elections.Born in 1917, three years before women won the right to vote, she cast her first presidential vote for Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Now, in 2016, she has cast her vote early for Hillary Clinton."I think she is undoubtedly the most qualified candidate for the presidency that we have seen in my lifetime," she says from her home at the retirement community where she lives, independently, outside Washington, D.C.Kolarek has bright blue eyes, an easy laugh, and a passion for words, especially The New York Times crossword."That's the first thing I do. I cut the crossword puzzle out, put it on a clipboard and go to work. Sometimes I've already done half of it before I have a sip of coffee," she says with a chuckle.She wrote a regular column for the retirement community's blog until this summer, when she decided it was time to stop."I was just running out of steam," she admits. "I wrote the
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