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A 92-year-old man in Egypt was recently stopped in his attempt to marry a 17-year-old girl. Egypt has a law that says the age gap between couples who seek marriage cannot exceed 25 years. However, apparently if the husband deposits a certain sum of money in the Egyptian National Bank, then he is allowed to marry as young as he wants.
"According to the al-Akhbar newspaper, 173 such marriages were allowed in the past year after the foreign husband deposited a sum equivalent to about US $8,000 and was screened."
Double standards are funny.
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