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.
Volio je pričati priče o tome kako je poput ptice živio od onoga što bi našao na šumskom tlu tijekom ne jednog, nego dva svjetska rata, kako su on i supruga, koja je također doživjela stotu, podigli šestero djece u maloj, ugodnoj kuhinji gdje sam ga intervjuirala.