Born in Quitman, Texas, Ms. Spacek now lives on a farm at the foot of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.

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These life expectancy numbers are contrasted with the lowest in the US, which is in Quitman and Tunica counties in Mississippi at only 66.1 years for men.

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