Biz Unusual

When a prepaid phone card charged a love story

(China Daily)
Updated: 2009-12-16 16:28

A resident of Dalian, Liaoning province, tied the knot with a woman he met one year ago, when he recharged her cell phone with 100 yuan ($14.65) by mistake.

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He called the number he had mistakenly recharged, and the girl on the other end "was ever so courteous."

"I fell in love," the man said in a speech at his wedding last week.

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