Monday, January 12, 2009 @10:42 PM
Would-be Chinese bride, 107, seeks first husbandBEIJING (Reuters) 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 Chines paper reported.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.Ok, this might be the future me.As in, the part about being single at an ripe old age.At least i am not alone.