<p>Lee Ta-pin, 77, and Sung Chin-yu, 74, revealed their secret for maintaining a happy marriage while celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary Sunday in Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan, the Merit Times reported.<br />A photograph printed with the story showed Lee, wearing a dark suit and tie, and Sung, wearing a wedding gown, renewing their wedding vows while each held a red apple.<br />Their tradition with the fruit began three months after their original wedding when Lee, as an army reservist, was called to serve in the military for 30 days.<br />Knowing that Sung liked to eat apples, Lee bought a basket of them for her, telling her to eat one apple a day when she missed him.<br />"By the time you have finished eating the 30 apples, I will come home and we will be reunited," he said.<br />Since then, Lee has been buying apples for Sung so that she could eat an apple each day. The only exception was when fruit shops were closed on typhoon days.<br />"I have enjoyed a sweet life because of the sweet apples he bought me," the Merit Times quoted her as saying.<br />In the 1960s and 1970s, apples were expensive because Taiwan did not grow them and had to import them from the US. <br /></p>
<p>Lee Ta-pin, 77, and Sung Chin-yu, 74, revealed their secret for maintaining a happy marriage while celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary Sunday in Kaohsiung in southern Taiwan, the Merit Times reported.<br />A photograph printed with the story showed Lee, wearing a dark suit and tie, and Sung, wearing a wedding gown, renewing their wedding vows while each held a red apple.<br />Their tradition with the fruit began three months after their original wedding when Lee, as an army reservist, was called to serve in the military for 30 days.<br />Knowing that Sung liked to eat apples, Lee bought a basket of them for her, telling her to eat one apple a day when she missed him.<br />"By the time you have finished eating the 30 apples, I will come home and we will be reunited," he said.<br />Since then, Lee has been buying apples for Sung so that she could eat an apple each day. The only exception was when fruit shops were closed on typhoon days.<br />"I have enjoyed a sweet life because of the sweet apples he bought me," the Merit Times quoted her as saying.<br />In the 1960s and 1970s, apples were expensive because Taiwan did not grow them and had to import them from the US. <br /></p>