Malaysian, 33, takes bride, 104 who hopes marriage will last

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2006

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) — A 33-year-old Malaysian man who married a 104-year-old woman said it was "God's will" that he tie the knot with someone old enough to be his great grandmother.

For her part, the bride said she hoped the marriage would last.

"It may seem strange to those who don't understand us but I have found peace since we got married two months ago," Muhammad Noor Che Musa was quoted as saying by the Malay-language Harian Metro.

The daily splashed pictures of a beaming Muhammad with his wife Wook Kundor whose smiling wrinkled face was framed by a Muslim headscarf.

Muhammad, who was a lodger in Wook's house, said he initally felt sorry for her as she was lonely but over time his feelings had grown stronger despite the 71-year age gap.

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