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‘Mum, good’: Chinese woman wakes vegetative daughter-in-law after 17 years of care

South China Morning Post · east asia

A woman in eastern China has been devotedly caring for her daughter-in-law for 17 years, ever since she fell into a vegetative state, moving social media users. The younger woman, surnamed Xu, fell into a vegetative state in 2009 after being struck by a truck in her village in Qingyun county, Shandong province. The accident happened just one month after she got married, Shandian News reported. Since then, her mother-in-law, Xuan Fengying, has cared for her around the clock. “She married my son,...

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