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Woman, 107, Seeks First Husband
Reuters via AOLNews ^
| January 12, 2009
Posted on 01/12/2009 8:09:03 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
BEIJING (Jan. 12) - 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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; husband
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
at 107, she better focus on getting right with the Lord.
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posted on
01/12/2009 8:10:53 AM PST
by
se_ohio_young_conservative
("Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." Barry Goldwater)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
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posted on
01/12/2009 8:11:04 AM PST
by
TSgt
(Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
"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?" Biological clock ticking
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posted on
01/12/2009 8:11:57 AM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
("The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule." - H L Mencken.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
"What will happen if I don't hurry up and find a husband?"
Should've thought of that 50 60 90 years ago! Snooze ya lose!
To: JRios1968; rightwingintelligentsia
To: rightwingintelligentsia
The 108-year-old virgin?Is she still living with her parents?
Regards,
To: MikeWUSAF
I was going to try for IBTHTP. *sigh*
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posted on
01/12/2009 8:17:09 AM PST
by
null and void
(Hey 0bama, now that you've caught the car, what are you going to do with it, hmmm?)
To: MikeWUSAF
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posted on
01/12/2009 8:20:02 AM PST
by
WakeUpAndVote
(I is a dis in french fried voter.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Imagine the history this woman has lived through. She was around to see Sun Yat-sen as president, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong, the Sino-Japanese war, WW2 and the conquest of China by the communists and that only takes us to 1950. She could write an interesting book.
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posted on
01/12/2009 8:22:46 AM PST
by
Larry381
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To: WakeUpAndVote; null and void
So sorry! Wrong thread!
I just saw the title and assumed... ;)
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posted on
01/12/2009 8:25:32 AM PST
by
TSgt
(Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
To: Larry381
And she’s still alive to tell about it!
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posted on
01/12/2009 8:25:56 AM PST
by
caver
(Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
To: MikeWUSAF
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posted on
01/12/2009 8:30:27 AM PST
by
exile
(I will NOT submit.)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
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01/12/2009 8:35:51 AM PST
by
Obadiah
To: rightwingintelligentsia
The question is can she wear white? LOL!!
To: rightwingintelligentsia
“Woman, 107, Seeks First Husband”
She can keep looking, but he’s probably dead by now.
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posted on
01/12/2009 8:37:49 AM PST
by
Buck W.
(BHO: Selling hope, keeping the change.)
To: martin_fierro
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posted on
01/12/2009 8:39:28 AM PST
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Talk about a late bloomer.
To: rightwingintelligentsia
I can understand why she didn’t want to rush into anything.
If she has a big dowry, or a few pigs and chickens...and promises to die soon, she mightr get some takers. LOL
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posted on
01/12/2009 8:43:10 AM PST
by
dforest
(Is there any good idea out there that Obama doesn't lay claim to anymore?)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
Given the shortage of females in China, she may have a shot.
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posted on
01/12/2009 8:56:55 AM PST
by
NavVet
( If you don't defend Conservatism in the Primaries, you won't have it to defend in November)
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