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A Big Man's Big Day

Tallest Man's Wedding, Bao Xishun, July 2007

Bao Xishun's Wedding, July 2007

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Many giants have lived in isolation, but things are changing. Bao Xishun, one of the world's tallest men, married Xis Shujuan on July 12. 2007. The 54-year-old fisherman and his 29-year-old bride had a traditional Mongolian wedding at the Genghis Khan Mausoleum in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China.

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