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Indonesian woman, 24, surprised to find she was at previous wedding of husband, 62, when she was 9

  • Looks through husband’s second wedding album, discovers coincidence
  • Well-matched despite ages, story shared on TikTok attracts 7 million views

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A 19-year-old Indonesian woman finds out after marrying a man aged 57, that she attended a previous wedding of his when she was just nine years old. Photo: SCMP composite/QQ.com
Iris Jiang

In a strange twist of fate, an Indonesian woman has discovered that the man she married was a groom she had met at a wedding when she was a child.

Renata Fadhea, 24, from Bangka Island, Indonesia, realised after marrying her husband, who is 38 years her senior, that she had met him 15 years before.

The couple, who had lost contact over the years, reconnected a decade and a half later.

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Fadhea shared her unusual experience on TikTok, which quickly garnered more than 7.1 million views.

The viral video included a group photo from her husband’s previous wedding in 2009, where Fadhea, then a nine-year-old girl, stood near her now 62-year-old husband.

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In a follow-up video, she explained that she had attended that wedding as a guest, and that the pair were distant relatives.

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