He loved to recount stories such as how he lived like a bird from what he could find on the forest floor during not one but two world wars, how he and his wife, who also lived past 100, raised six children in a small, homey kitchen where I interviewed him.
Li encantava explicar històries com de quan vivia com un ocellet del que podia trobar al bosc durant no una, sinó dues guerres mundials, com de quan ell i la seva dona, que també va viure més de 100 anys, van criar sis fills a la petita cuina familiar on el vaig entrevistar.