http://news.donga.com/Main/3/all/20180504/89928578/1

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/he-was-one-of-millions-of-chinese-seniors-growing-old-alone-so-he-put-himself-up-for-adoption/2018/05/01/53749264-3d6a-11e8-912d-16c9e9b37800_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.725a6461cf24

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Han’s son Han Chang flew in from Canada to handle his affairs. He was angry at his father for posting an adoption notice and angry at reporters for covering it.

The younger Han said his father had been lying, that the old man had three sons, not two, and that they took good care of him. He declined to provide the names or numbers of his siblings or anyone else who could confirm his account.

His father had not been lonely, he insisted, just old. “

This could happen anywhere

,” he said.
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