Twenty-two year-old groom Shen Wei said it is more joyful to have his wedding on this day.

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His friend Wei Bo, also 15, is one of those who stayed inside.

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Whilst Puccini's Calaf relentlessly pursues his Turandot, Mr Wei's prince at one point gives up his pursuit of Turandot in search of real beauty.

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Since 2009, the elder Mr. Lee has been fighting a neurological disease that makes it difficult for him to walk, his daughter Lee Wei Ling, a neuroscientist, wrote in Singapore's Sunday Times in 2011.

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