40 years of marriage was apparently too many, as a man in Cambodia cut his home in two, moving his half to his parents' property.
"'It is the strangest thing I've ever seen,' said May Titthara, who wrote about the case for The Phnom P'nh Post, an English-language newspaper in the Cambodian capital. "People there never saw this happen in a divorce. It is very interesting for them.'
The husband and wife had been living together in the house in a village in the Prey Veng province of southern Cambodia, roughly 50 miles (80 km) from the capital."
Read the full story: A house divided: Estranged couple's home cut in half
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