Growing old together: Touching scenes of elderly couples
By Liu Dong and Guo Kai |
chinadaily.com.cn |
Updated: 2017-06-26 08:52
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Hand in hand
A 92-year-old man got seriously ill and was sent to hospital where his wife was later sent as well for a femur fracture in Zhejiang province.
The man requested: "I haven't seen my wife for a long time, I want to see her."
When the two hospital beds were next to each other, the couple held each others' hands. The man told his wife in a trembling voice: "I could not take care of you any more in this life. You must be good all alone..."
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