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POWER of LOVE ....Is NEVER Too Late ~~
100-yr-old man hooks up with 106-yr-old
widow in home
Chen Honghui never
thought love would come knocking on an old folks home's door, but across
the room there she was—then-96-year-old widow Huang Jiankai. Their eyes met
and he was smitten.
Now a decade later, he's
100-years-old and the two lovebirds are acting like a couple of kids,
staying close to each other all the time and doing everything together—much
to the disapproval of the other 142 retirees.
In fact, Chen and Huang
have lost almost all their friends at the home.
But that hasn't stopped
the couple from calling themselves life partners for their remaining years,
supported and encouraged by the staff and nurses at the home in Lunjiao
town of Southern China's Guangdong province.
For Chen, taking care of
his old girl and making sure she's happy are his main concerns, while his
daily tasks include feeding her and helping her to wash up. "How's
breakfast? Enough? Let me cook some noodles for you," said Chen, as
Huang complained about the food served by the home.
Chen is so willing to do
anything for his girlfriend that he even gets up in the middle of the night
to make oat porridge by request or go out to buy her favourite food.
"He will feed Huang first before taking his own meal," said
healthcare worker Mo Renwu.
When they were younger,
Chen was a journalist at a radio station and Huang, whose husband died in
the '70s, was a nanny. Neither have children, so they ended up at the
government-run home.
"We're old.
Marriage is not necessary for us. We're like family members keeping each
other company," said Huang, who suffers from memory loss. "I like
him. We're best friends for life and we take care of each other
forever."
The two initially lived
on different floors but moved into a shared room last year after Huang
began having difficulties walking. "Seeing this loving couple, I'm so
touched, I allowed them to live together. That's the only mixed room
here," said Lin Yuyan, the head of the home.
Source: Southern
Metropolis Daily
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Terminally ill woman, 64, battling a brain tumour for 18-months marries
the love of her life in hospital
By Claire
Bates
A terminally-ill woman who has been
battling a brain tumour for 18-months has married the love of her life at
the age of 64.
Jean Jamieson, of Spennymoor, County
Durham, was diagnosed with the tumour in 2011 and was given just a year to
live last May.
But she exceeded doctor’s expectations
and tied the knot with long-term partner Ian, also 64, last month.
Family and staff gathered around Jean Jamieson's
bedside at the James Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough as she
married Ian in an emotional civil ceremony
Family and staff gathered at the James
Cook University Hospital, in Middlesbrough, for the emotional civil
ceremony.
Mr Jamieson, a retired Durham Police
inspector, said: 'We’d been together for seven years and we’d talked about
getting married and then Jean was diagnosed with the cancer.
'I went to visit her on Monday, October
15 and she proposed to me by writing ‘will you marry me’ on the back of a
card.
'I had no hesitation in saying yes as
we’d always wanted to get married. We decided to get married on the Friday
and I had three days to get sorted.
'She wanted to pick her own ring, so I
brought in the Argos catalogue and then I had to get the ring and arrange
fir special marriage licences.'
He added: 'If she had not asked me to
marry her, then I would have asked her. The
hospital staff were great and they decorated the ward for us and, although
it was a rush, it was all worth it in the end.'
Newlyweds: Jean and Ian have been together for seven
years. They had talked about getting married before Jean was diagnosed with
cancer
Mr Jamieson, of Meadow Green, was married
to June when he first met Jean in the 1970s when she was married to Gordon
Young.
The families became friends and when Mr
Jamieson divorced and Mr Young died they drifted apart - but a chance
meeting brought them together.
Mr Jamieson met one of Mrs Jamieson’s
relatives at a Rotary Club of Spennymoor event in 2006 and decided to
contact her.
They planned to move in together, but
then the former community nurse was diagnosed with cancer.
Between them the couple have four sons -
Lee, Peter, Richard and Andrew - and grandchildren Chloe and Ethan.
Mrs Jamieson, who is now being treated in
Sedgefield Community Hospital, County Durham, hopes to see the newest
member of her family - son Richard and girlfriend Michaela’s baby, who they
plan to call Evie Young, when she is born in December.
Elizabeth Price, lead nurse for
end-of-life care and bereavement at the hospital, said: 'It’s very rare
that we have a wedding on a ward.
'But when a wedding does go ahead the
staff always pull out all the stops to make the room look nice and make the
day extra special.'
The James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough.
Lead nurse said weddings were rare but they always pulled out the stops to
make the room look nice
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