Ryan Gallagher
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September 21, 2012
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16 years later, goldfish still enchanting owners

For first-time fish owners, on average, how long does a goldfish live? Two to three weeks? Not the case for Barbara Cramer’s 16-year-old goldfish Cleo. “We always expected her to die, and she never did,” said Cramer during an August interview with The Union. “And now I think she’s going to outlast us because I’m 80, my husband’s 81, what if she lasts another 10 years?” While living in Truckee in 1996, Cramer visited Grass Valley and took her two grandsons, Alex and Daniel, to the Nevada County Fair. The boys played one of the coin-tossing games, and both won …

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