A Florida man paid $17Â 000 (R100Â 000) for a full-page newspaper ad imploring his wife to return, two weeks after she had left him.
“Life without you is empty and meaningless. Please, please call me,” Larry urged Marianne in the Florida Times-Union ad, which uses only the couple’s first names and shows a man in a suit kneeling before a woman in a long, formal dress.
The Jacksonville, Florida, daily said the lovelorn man paid $17Â 000 for the plea.
The paper, which received hundreds of queries about Tuesday’s ad, did not reveal the jilted husband’s full name. But it said his wife left him two weeks ago and is now living with her parents.
Larry told the paper he had sent his wife five dozen roses, to no avail. He then decided to run the ad “to show her how much she means to me. I want everyone to know that.”
“I’m desperately trying to save our marriage,” Larry said.
He said a relative told him his wife cried when she saw the ad. But she did not call. — AFP