Maria Guzman, who celebrated her 82nd birthday last week with about 40 relatives, is preparing for her next cruise — to the Greek islands.

Guzman, who lives by herself in Elk Grove when she’s not touring the world, is one of the unsung heroines of a new study showing that Latinas and Asian American women live longer than anyone else in California.

The state’s 6.5 million Latinas enjoy an average life expectancy of 83, while the nearly 2.3 million Asian American females can expect to live past 85, according to the nonprofit Public Policy Institute of California.

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