What are the chances of that happening
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flybynight
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What are the chances of that happening
Husband and wife discover they are siblings
Phnom Penh - A Cambodian man's joy turned to dismay after he discovered that his long-lost mother, who had survived the bloody Khmer Rouge regime, is also the mother of his wife.
Tep Song, 35, and his wife Tep Ly, 38, had been removed from their village in the southern province of Svay Rieng and separated by Khmer Rouge troops in 1975 when they were five and eight, respectively.
The pair told aid workers they met again when Song was 17 and extremely ill in hospital in neighbouring Takeo province and Ly was assigned as his nurse. They fell in love and married soon afterwards, unaware that they had any more in common than having been born in the same province.
The couple had believed that the rest of their families had been wiped out. But Song, an itinerant worker, saved everything they had to make a trip to his home village to search for any surviving family - where he discovered his mother, Thit Sohn, 77.
'At first they were overjoyed'
"At first, of course, they were overjoyed, but then the son and mother began naming other relatives who had been murdered," Prom Bopha of the Collect Safe of People (CSP) aid agency said in a telephone interview.
"Ly was surprised, and told them these were also her relatives' names, and then they discovered they shared the same childhood memories, and before long they realised that they had the same father and mother," said Prom Bopha, whose group is caring for the family.
"It should have been a time of great joy, but now the mother cries all day and all night," Prom Bopha said. "They are surprised and very upset and all three are now very ill."
The couple has four children, aged between 14 years and 14 months.
The ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia between 1975 to 1979. Up to two million Cambodians died during the regime's drive to turn the nation into an agrarian utopia, free of class systems, markets and money.
The regime emptied the cities and often removed children from parents to more easily indoctrinate them. Thousands of Cambodians are still searching for family members. - Sapa-dpa
Published on the Web by IOL on 2005-08-06 09:15:19
© Independent Online 2005. All rights reserved. IOL publishes this article in good faith but is not liable for any loss or damage caused by reliance on the information it contains.
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Phnom Penh - A Cambodian man's joy turned to dismay after he discovered that his long-lost mother, who had survived the bloody Khmer Rouge regime, is also the mother of his wife.
Tep Song, 35, and his wife Tep Ly, 38, had been removed from their village in the southern province of Svay Rieng and separated by Khmer Rouge troops in 1975 when they were five and eight, respectively.
The pair told aid workers they met again when Song was 17 and extremely ill in hospital in neighbouring Takeo province and Ly was assigned as his nurse. They fell in love and married soon afterwards, unaware that they had any more in common than having been born in the same province.
The couple had believed that the rest of their families had been wiped out. But Song, an itinerant worker, saved everything they had to make a trip to his home village to search for any surviving family - where he discovered his mother, Thit Sohn, 77.
'At first they were overjoyed'
"At first, of course, they were overjoyed, but then the son and mother began naming other relatives who had been murdered," Prom Bopha of the Collect Safe of People (CSP) aid agency said in a telephone interview.
"Ly was surprised, and told them these were also her relatives' names, and then they discovered they shared the same childhood memories, and before long they realised that they had the same father and mother," said Prom Bopha, whose group is caring for the family.
"It should have been a time of great joy, but now the mother cries all day and all night," Prom Bopha said. "They are surprised and very upset and all three are now very ill."
The couple has four children, aged between 14 years and 14 months.
The ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia between 1975 to 1979. Up to two million Cambodians died during the regime's drive to turn the nation into an agrarian utopia, free of class systems, markets and money.
The regime emptied the cities and often removed children from parents to more easily indoctrinate them. Thousands of Cambodians are still searching for family members. - Sapa-dpa
Published on the Web by IOL on 2005-08-06 09:15:19
© Independent Online 2005. All rights reserved. IOL publishes this article in good faith but is not liable for any loss or damage caused by reliance on the information it contains.
seriously, 1 in 1000000000000000000000
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There was another similar kind of thing that happened in the US that I saw on Dr. Phil. A husband and wife discovered that they were half brother and sister. Turns out, their dad had first been the highschool sweetheart of the guy's mom, got her pregnant, then went to war. When he came back, he met the wife's mom and got married to her. Then the two met in like California or something, got married, and then visited the husbands mom back in Michigan (Minnesota, I can't remember which) and saw pictures of their mom and dad together.
Re: What are the chances of that happening
Here's a story for ya. A guy was dating a girl who was joined to her sister, as in Siamese twins. The girl he was dating found out that he had had an affair with the co-joined sister. In a jealous rage, she grabbed a gun and shot her sister. Since they were joined together, they both bled to death. The coroner did not know whether to rule it a murder, or a suicide, or a murder/suicide. Tragic.
Re: What are the chances of that happening
In San Francisco, would it be possible for brothers to accidentally marry each other. Or even sisters for that matter.
Re: What are the chances of that happening
If your mother dies and your father remarries. Then your father dies and you marry his new wife. Technally speaking, are you marrying your mother?
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Re: What are the chances of that happening
I wasn't questioning incest, Gunner. That's why I said technically speaking!!!!.....Hamlet "LIKED" his mother. It was Hamlet's uncle (Dad's brother) who killed his Dad and married his mother. In other words, a brother killed a brother and married his wife.