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Love conquers tragedy

A FORMER singer in east China's Shandong Province woke up his comatose wife after singing love songs at her bedside for four years, Shandong Business Daily revealed yesterday.

Song Yuhuan, 36, fell into coma after being put on a drip for inflammation in a hospital in Liaocheng City in June 2001. The drug used on her is called herba houttuyniae and has been banned since 2006 after several fatalities.

Song's husband, Zhang Yuhua, said he was lucky the accident didn't take the life of his wife. He quit his job as a singer and sang only to one person, his wife at home.

Every day, Zhang sang her favorite songs while changing her clothes and cleaning her bed. His voice could be heard all day long, said Zhang's mother.

The miracle came in 2005, when Zhang suddenly saw a teardrop rolling from his wife's eye. Song later asked for a divorce because she felt she was a burden, the newspaper said, but Zhang refused. "Everyone said I should give up and I said I can't. I just can't because I love her," he told Shandong Business Daily.




 

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