Longest living character?

So how long have you had a character?

Do you remember back in the days of playing AD&D, or even Basic D&D, you had a character this character that you loved. You loved him or her so much, that everytime you played a new game, you tried a way to bring that character into the game. Well my character was Sir Ashton of the Kingdom of BlackMoore. Sir Ashton followed me from the first game I played, in Basic D&D, to First Edition, a brief try at 2E, a long run in 3E, then finally retired. Recently I had brought back the AD&D 1E Sir Ashton, who made it upto 15th level. Maybe its time to see how far I can take him?