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R/€ Not without his beloved wife ...
November 27, 2009 Edition 1
HANOI: A Vietnamese man dug up his wife's corpse and slept beside it for five years because he wanted to hug her in bed, an online newspaper reported yesterday.
The 55-year-old man from a small town in the central province of Quang Nam opened up his wife's grave in 2004, moulded clay around the remains to give the figure of a woman, put clothes on her and then placed her in his bed.
The man said that after his wife died in 2003 he slept on top of her grave, but about 20 months later he decided to dig a tunnel into the grave "to sleep with her".
His children found out, though, and prevented him from going to the grave. So one night he dug up his wife's remains and took them home. - Reuters
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