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Isaac Granger Jefferson, as he called himself and was widely known in his later years, died in 1846 at the age of seventy-one, a free man of color.

“The women in my family look younger than we actually are. We take after my grandmother. She’s seventy-one years old, but she doesn’t look a day over fifty.”

He wormed his ship through the ice pack to reach seventy-one degrees south latitude, and then turned north again without ever seeing the land.

At my last practice before the trip, I only sank seventy-one out of one hundred free throws.

To be fair, I suppose the boy is seventy-one.