ABSTRACT
Willemijntje was born in 1875 and lived for ninety-four years. She saw the first horse tram riding through Amsterdam and the first electric train in the country; she watched on television as the first man landed on the moon. After Willemijntje’s birth her mother sent someone to get a pound of horse meat to help her regain her strength. Her father, coming home from work, welcomed the baby and went out to buy his wife a currant loaf, which he used to do each time a child was born. And life went back to normal.
