To live to be 103 is amazing but to have a younger sister that is 101 is truly amazing. What makes this tale really unbelievable is that these two sisters, The Delanys, have lived full and challenging lives during their hundred odd years on this earth. Born in Raleigh, N.C., the daughters of a freed slave and their father, Henry Delany, was a vice principal at St. Augustine's College, near Raleigh and he became the nation's first black Episcopal bishop. After Sadie and Bessie graduated from "St. Aug's," they went to New York to attend Columbia University. Sadie earned a bachelor's and master's degrees from Columbia Teachers College and was the city's first home economics teacher. Bessie went to dental school and was the second black woman in the state to be a licensed dentist. Later, they were the first to integrate suburban Mount Vernon. This unvarnished, entertaining and inspiring memoir, written after both sisters passed the century mark, recounts growing up black in the turn of the century. They lived through Jim Crow, legal segregation, took part in the World War I-era migrations to the North. They meet Brooker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Cab Calloway, and Lena Horn. They choose careers over marriage. When Bessie died in 1995 at age 104, her sister Sarah wrote a poignant new book, On My Own at 107. Sadie died in 1999 at 109. These two courageous women did and saw it all. Their lifelong insights provide us with a priceless history of our nation's past century.