The Fourth Marriage of Sylvanus Greybeard
This article is about my fourth marriage to a Moluccan woman, who was 51 years old at the time, the same age as me. She was born in the Netherlands and was a friend of my younger sister. While I was living in Switzerland, I traveled to the Netherlands once a week for business and would visit my younger sister, which is where I first met the Moluccan woman. After speaking with her a few times, I asked if she would come to Switzerland to live with me. She had lost her job and was living above the business where she worked, and since the business was being sold, she was about to become homeless. Once she arrived in Switzerland, after some time she asked me if I would marry her. I said yes, and so we were married. Women always asked me to marry them, I only ever asked my first wife to marry me. I was with the Moluccan woman to have a companion, not to have a romantic relationship. For the 14 years we were married, we lived like a brother and sister. There was no love, but we had respect fo...
