Remembering the World’s Oldest Person, in the Objects She Left Behind<br />Santoni said that She always said, ‘I paid for it; I had it made,<br />She was always polite and patient, Ms. Santoni said, "but after a while, she would turn to me<br />and say in dialect, ‘Are they ever going to leave?’" Ms. Morano was buried in the local cemetery, in the family tomb.<br />Ms. Morano hadn’t left her apartment for years, Ms. Santoni said.<br />On the day of Ms. Morano’s funeral, as her coffin was being lowered into the ground, the woman called out, "Emma, I’m counting on you to give me as long a life as you had!" Ms. Morano always took care of herself, going regularly to a hairdresser when she still went out in public, and she even fretted<br />that she had to be well groomed because of the pilgrimage of visitors.<br />By ELISABETTA POVOLEDO VERBANIA, Italy — The last time Emma Morano left her apartment, she was 102 years old.<br />"We have too many things, too many distractions, too many items offered to us, too many messages,<br />and a person like Emma struggles to emerge," the Rev.<br />Rosemarie Santoni said that All the sisters were determined,
