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    An apple a day keeps divorce at bay, couple says


    DPA , TAIPEI
    Tuesday, Oct 13, 2009, Page 4

    ¡§By the time you have finished eating the 30 apples, I will come home and we will be reunited.¡¨
    ¡X Lee Ta-pin, Kaohsiung resident

    A couple has been living happily together for half a century because the husband has been giving his wife an apple a day to keep their marriage sweet, a Chinese-language newspaper reported yesterday.

    Lee Ta-pin (§õ¤jÀØ), 77, and Sung Chin-yu (§ºª÷¥É), 74, revealed their secret for a happy marriage while celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on Sunday in Kaohsiung, the Merit Times reported.

    A photograph with the story showed Lee, wearing a dark suit and tie, and Sung, wearing a wedding gown, renewing their vows while each held a red apple.

    Their tradition began three months after their wedding when Lee, an army reservist, was called up to serve for 30 days. Knowing that Sung liked apples, Lee bought a basket of them for her, telling her to eat an apple a day when she missed him.

    ¡§By the time you have finished eating the 30 apples, I will be home and we will be reunited,¡¨ he said.

    Lee has been buying apples for Sung ever since, except when fruit shops were closed on typhoon days.

    ¡§I have enjoyed a sweet life because of the sweet apples he bought me,¡¨ the newspaper quoted Sung as saying.

    In the 1960s and 1970s, apples were very expensive because they were not grown locally and were imported from the US. A Red Delicious apple cost US$2, which was enough to buy food for a family for several days.
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