# A love for the ages.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-the-ages/355122>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 2, 2006, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-the-ages/355122 "2006-05-02T17:05:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/7cd45c/32.png) [@\_Deep\_F\_ied](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Deep_F_ied)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-the-ages/355122/1 "2006-05-02T17:05:41Z")

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A 33 year old Malaysian man falls in love and marries a 104 year old woman.  
I wonder if they have consumated the marriage?  
And what do you think they ate at the reception? Banana mush through straws?  
Story [here](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060502/ap_on_fe_st/unusual_couple) .

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> The report did not say if any of Wook’s previous 20 husbands are still alive.

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**Author:** ![Can\_I\_change\_my\_answer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Can\_I\_change\_my\_answer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Can_I_change_my_answer)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-the-ages/355122/2 "2006-05-02T22:29:53Z")

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Sounds like they have as much in common as most couples lined up at the Vegas drive-thru chapels.

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**Author:** ![Can\_I\_change\_my\_answer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Can\_I\_change\_my\_answer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Can_I_change_my_answer)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-the-ages/355122/3 "2006-05-02T22:32:09Z")

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And by that I mean marriage is such a crapshoot it’s not worth making predictions on other couples’s odds of success.  
Me and the ex were the same age to the week, and look what happened to us.  
If she’d been in her hundreds when we got together, it would just be a different age on the divorce decree, nothing else would have changed.

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**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-the-ages/355122/4 "2006-05-03T00:32:01Z")

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It was good enough for Harold and Maude, Anna Nicole and J. Howard, and um, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, so it’s good enough for me, dammit.

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**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-the-ages/355122/5 "2006-05-03T03:37:56Z")

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In a really bizarre, creepy, odd, disturbing way, that’s quite romantic. Good for them.

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**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\
**Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-love-for-the-ages/355122/6 "2006-05-03T19:02:53Z")

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Now that adds a few wrinkles to the marriage contract.