105-year Old Double PhD Holder Seeks Ms. Right
November 13, 2006This beautiful headline was snatched from the English Northeast Network a website that has news on the recent events in the DongBei (Northeast) region where we live. It is based out of Shenyang which is the capital city of our province of Liaoning.
A brief excerpt of the story
Gong Duruo, 105, a double PhD holder started searching for Ms. Right on his blog Wednesday, which surprised netizens nationwide, wrote the Chinese Business Morning View Friday.
” I cannot live without love any more, and I want someone to spend the rest of my life with,” thrice-divorced Gong wrote in his blog.
Gong wrote that he wanted a woman who knew a bit about medicine, and if she were around 50 years old, that would be a plus.
He has received ten applications within two days. Zhang, 52, who comes from a long line of doctors’ families, caught Gong’s eye.
Zhang runs a beauty salon after her retirement in Shenyang, northeast China’s Liaoning Province, some two thousand kilometers away from Gong’s home in Baotou, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
” I am willing to give up my business and to leave my daughter for him,” Zhang concluded.
She will be an apprentice rather than a wife, and many netizens questioned Zhang’s intentions.
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