Posted on 01/15/2009 9:07:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
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, Ms 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 Ms 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 Ms 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.
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IBTHTP!
Her parents are probably quite concerned she will wind up as an old spinster.
I’m here too much. I actually understand it.
Clearly, she’s a late bloomer. Didn’t anyone ever mention to her that old, old maxim, “Life begins at ninety”?
She shouldn’t rush into this without giving it some more time and thought.
I was hoping there would be a picture of this feisty little Lady.
Her biological clock is ticking.
She should auction herself off like that high-priced virgin hooker that’s been in the news lately.
Heh.
I didn’t till I asked about it last week. I’m pretty sure it was a topic about this same old lady.
Me too. I looked at the letters and the words just came to mind, followed by horrible images.
The 107-year-old virgin who was afraid to marry starts her search for Mr Right
dailymail.co.uk | January 12, 2009 | Richard Shears
Posted on 01/12/2009 9:42:43 AM PST by Free ThinkerNY
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