Love
knows no age. A 60-year-old man has fallen in love with a 100-year-old
woman and even asked her to become his wife. An unusual love story has
started between wheelchair-bound Marfa Plotnikova and her future husband
blind Afanasii Harin in a Russian retirement home. The couple spent 11
years together before finally deciding to mary each other.
Woman
100-year-old Mrs Plotnikova was moved into the nursing home after she
outlived her previous husband and their two children. Inside the home
she met her toyboy, Afanasii, who had spent his entire life in the care
home after being abandoned at birth. The 60-year-old toy boy said: “I
know a lot of people will think this is strange, but I don’t care. Love
is one of the most important things, and I wanted to show the ultimate
expression of that by taking Marfa for my wife. I have never seen her,
but I can touch her face and for me she is beautiful. They say love is
blind, and I guess we are living proof of that.”
The couple spent 11 years together before finally deciding to mary each
other On of the nurses said:“When they first met you could tell they
had a special bond. Marfa is a lot older than him, old enough to be his
mother, so at first we assumed she was just being maternal towards him.
But Afanasii has a wicked sense of humour and would make her howl with
laughter and they would often take long walks together. In the evenings
he entertains us with his accordion playing and we could see the
relationship between them blossom and bloom into true love.” The happy
couple invited care home residents and workers to their wedding ceremony
that took place in a nursing house in Perm, central Russia.
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