Florida man pays 17,000 dollars for full-page ad urging wife to return

0 Comments | AFP, January, 2005

MIAMI (AFP) — A Florida man paid 17,000 dollars for a full-page newspaper ad imploring his wife to return, some two weeks after she had left him.

"Life without you is empty and meaningless. Please, please call me," Larry urged Marianne in the Florida Times-Union ad, which uses only the couple's first names and shows a man in a suit kneeling before a woman in a long, formal dress.

The Jacksonville, Florida daily said the lovelorn man paid 17,000 dollars for the plea.

The paper, which received hundreds of queries about Tuesday's ad, did not reveal the jilted husband's full name. But it said his wife left him two weeks ago and is now living with her parents.

Larry told the paper he had sent his wife five dozen roses, to no avail. He then decided to run...