The oldest clown in Peru
At 91 years old, Ricardo Farfan is still joking around
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(Image credit: (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) Each morning, Ricardo Farfan takes out a tattered old notebook and reviews page after page of jokes and clowning moves — a written history of his life in the circus,)
(Image credit: (AP Photos/Esteban Felix))
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) Farfan inherited the family business — the Farfan Brothers Circus — but he was forced to shutter the enterprise in 1990 so he could care for his wife. While)
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Esteban Felix) After so many decades, you might think Farfan would be ready to hang up his wigs and pack up his oversized suits. But he says it's just not in his nature to live)
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Esteban Felix))
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Esteban Felix))
(Image credit: (AP Photo/Esteban Felix))
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