A Taiwan couple has been living happily together for half a century because the husband has been giving his wife an apple a day to keep their marriage sweet.
Lee Ta-pin, 77, and Sung Chin-yu, 74, revealed their secret for maintaining a happy marriage while celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary Sunday in Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan. Their tradition with the fruit began three months after their wedding when Lee, as an army reservist, was called to serve in the military for 30 days.
Knowing that Sung liked to eat apples, Lee bought a basket full of apple for her, telling her to eat one apple a day when she misses him. -- I think by then there were no refrigerators and fruits can’t stay for more than 2 or 3 days 
-- but still it is too romantic.
"By the time you have finished eating the 30 apples, I will come home and we will be reunited" he said.
Since then, Lee has been buying apples for Sung so that she could eat an apple each day. The only exception was when fruit shops were closed on typhoon days. In the 1960s and 1970s, apples were expensive because Taiwan did not grow them and had to import them from the US.
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