Wife number 25 brings contentment »

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After 24 failed marriages, a 49-year-old porter in eastern Nepal says that he has finally found happiness in his latest union. The simple reason is that the landless laborer's latest marriage seems to be working out, unlike the previous ones.

Ramchandra Katuwal, of Khandbari municipality in Sankhuwasava, and his wife Sharada recently celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary. And for Mr Katuwal, the journey to conjugal bliss was paved with pitfalls and potholes. He first got married at age 26. From then onwards his life veered from one disastrous marriage to another. His first wife set a precedent followed by many of her successors: she eloped with her lover. "My second wife also ran away," he said, "and the third one too." From the succession of wives who came and went over a 16-year period, Mr Katuwal says that he can only remember nine of them clearly. But 25 seems to have been his lucky number.

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