lostinblue Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090112/wl_nm/...ide_centenarian BEIJING (Reuters) ¨C A 107-year-old Chinese woman who was afraid to marry when she was young has decided to look for her first husband and hopes to find a fellow centenarian so they will have something to talk about, a Chinese paper reported. Wang Guiying is worried she is becoming a burden to her aging nieces and nephews since breaking her leg when she was 102 and had to stop doing chores like washing her clothes. "I'm already 107 and I still haven't got married," the Chongqing Commercial Times quoted her saying. "What will happen if I don't hurry up and find a husband?" Born in southern Guizhou province the child of a salt merchant, Wang grew up watching her uncles and other men scold and beat their wives and often found her aunt crying in the woodshed after an attack, the paper said. "All the married people around there lived like that. Getting married was too frightening," she said of an era when Chinese women had few rights and low social standing. Many also had their feet bound in an excruciating process aimed at making them look more dainty and marriageable. After Wang's father, mother and older sister died, she still shied away from marriage. Instead she moved to the countryside and survived as a farmer until she was 74 years old and no longer strong enough to work in the fields, the report said. Her nephew in the booming city of Chongqing then took Wang in, but she is worried he and her other nephews and nieces are too old to take care of her now even the youngest is 60. "My nephews and nieces are getting older and their children are already tied up with their own families and I am becoming more and more of a burden," she said. Local officials have said they are happy to help Wang search for a 100-year old groom, and suggested her family get in touch with old people's homes to find candidates, the paper said. (Reporting by Emma Graham-Harrison; Editing by Nick Macfie and Sugita Katyal) Link to comment
Guest Dylan W Posted January 18, 2009 Report Share Posted January 18, 2009 Awww... I want some photos! Link to comment
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SheLikesME? Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 Why sin't this in the TC? I want to know if she's a virgin. Link to comment
Dennis143 Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 Why does the thought of my friend Al and this woman keep poppin' up in my head? Link to comment
Guest Dylan W Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 Why does the thought of my friend Al and this woman keep poppin' up in my head? Why does Al keeping poppin' up in your head? Link to comment
SheLikesME? Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 Why does the thought of my friend Al and this woman keep poppin' up in my head? There you go. Hey Al, have I got a deal for you!!! It's been stored for awhile but fresh as the day she was built. Link to comment
Dennis143 Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 Why does the thought of my friend Al and this woman keep poppin' up in my head? Why does Al keeping poppin' up in your head? http://i44.tinypic.com/35hhdsp.gif Link to comment
Guest Dylan W Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 Why does the thought of my friend Al and this woman keep poppin' up in my head? There you go. Hey Al, have I got a deal for you!!! It's been stored for awhile but fresh as the day she was built.We need to get dinner at Texas Roadhouse, we can shoot the gun and eat peanuts while throwin' the shells on the floor! What a fun time we could have! We could invite Dennis and Al to join as well! Link to comment
Dennis143 Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 Why does the thought of my friend Al and this woman keep poppin' up in my head? There you go. Hey Al, have I got a deal for you!!! It's been stored for awhile but fresh as the day she was built.Thank you, Doug. You get it! Link to comment
Dennis143 Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 Why does the thought of my friend Al and this woman keep poppin' up in my head? There you go. Hey Al, have I got a deal for you!!! It's been stored for awhile but fresh as the day she was built.We need to get dinner at Texas Roadhouse, we can shoot the gun and eat peanuts while throwin' the shells on the floor! What a fun time we could have! We could invite Dennis and Al to join as well!I don't get it. Link to comment
Guest Dylan W Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 Why does the thought of my friend Al and this woman keep poppin' up in my head? There you go. Hey Al, have I got a deal for you!!! It's been stored for awhile but fresh as the day she was built.We need to get dinner at Texas Roadhouse, we can shoot the gun and eat peanuts while throwin' the shells on the floor! What a fun time we could have! We could invite Dennis and Al to join as well!I don't get it. a CFL 'Gettogether' dinner. like East meets West. Link to comment
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