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              Mary Jane enjoying a sip of Dragon Stout; for this 107- year-old, beer and rum give the spirit a lift. "I love men!" rattled Mary Jane. "Men are nice." She remembers picking a fight at her school gate and riding a donkey to church. She is no teeny-bopper; she turned 107 in January. "I was born in 1901 in St Elizabeth," she says. Mary Jane is a resident of the Golden Age Home in Kingston. "She has been with us for the last 10 years," says Morlene Moncrieffe-Grant, supervisor of Cluster F, where Mary Jane stays. Mary Jane lost her eyesight some years back. She is very agile and carries on a great conversation - after a couple of sips of beer. She gulps down liquid with the utmost ease. "I love spirits; it makes me calm," she tells The Sunday Gleaner . "Ginger beer is baby drink," Mary Jane proclaims. "I love Dragon Stout." "She is very fond of rum and beer. In spite of her fondness for alcohol, sh...