A woman classified by Guinness World Records as the oldest person in the world died on Aug. 19 at the age of 117, her family confirmed to The New York Times.
According to Guinness World Records, Maria Branyas Morera died in Spain at the Residència Santa María del Tura nursing home in Olot, Catalonia, where she has lived since 2000.
Guinness World Records passed on the title of “oldest woman living” to Branyas Morera when Lucile Randon, a nun also known as Sister André, died in 2023 at the age of 118.
What does “caress the Fairy” mean?!
Also known as “flicking the bean”
Allegedly
It’s what google translating the Catalan “acaronar a la Fada” gets you. I don’t speak Catalan (or even any other language of Spain), so I can’t really offer a proper explanation, but the capitalised “la Fada” in the original post suggests to me that it might be a reference to the folktale La Fada Morgana or some other cultural touchstone
We also use the article for personal names, might as well be a cat or dog.
Ahhh that would explain it. Thanks!
But frankly no idea.