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Friday, September 02, 2011

:) Don't know the veracity, but it's a nice story

Man Carves Wife a 6,000 Stair Path in Mountain
A weird love story has come out of China recently and managed to touch the world. It is a story of a man and an older woman who ran off to live and love each other in peace for over half century.

Over 50 years ago, Liu, was a 19 years-old boy, fell in love with a 29 year-old widowed mother named Xu. At the time, it was unacceptable and immoral for a young man to love an older woman.

To avoid the market gossips, the couple decided to elope and lived in a cave in Jiangjin County in Southern ChongQing area.
Snopes lists its status as true or false as 'undetermined'--as of 2008. It's sweet, regardless of whether it is fiction or not, although I must admit, I'd like to know which it is. :)

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