Monday, January 18, 2021, 17:00 GMT+7
Nguyen The Ngoc, or Teo, and his long-time wife on their way to their roadside bike fixing shop in Binh Chanh District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Photo: Hoang Tung / Tuoi Tre
In suburban Ho Chi Minh City, a one-legged man and his able-bodied wife have been through thick and thin together for almost five decades now.
Nguyen The Ngoc, who also goes by the nickname Teo the crippled, had lived a lonely, poverty-stricken life until he met his wife during the early 1970s in the midst of a war-ravaged Vietnam.
The elderly couple have stuck together even through rough patches to prove that if they can make it through the storms, there is nothing that will get in their way.