When 26-year-old Yuki<\/strong> announced she was marrying 70-year-old Kenji<\/strong>, friends were shocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGirl, is he rich-rich?\u201d one asked. Yuki, however,<\/p>\n\n\n\n had found comfort in a kind stranger on a beach in Okinawa during a difficult time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kenji, a retired physics professor with a quirky humor, won her over quickly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019ve lived long enough to know that most people are full of it. You\u2019re not.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n That\u2019s rare,\u201d<\/em> he told her. Ten days later, they married. Yuki described what she found as \u201cpeace.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Their story went viral, drawing criticism and celebration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yuki kept it simple: \u201cAge is just a number. Unless it\u2019s your cholesterol \u2014 that number matters.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, Yuki blogs at Love, Lemonade & Kenji<\/strong>, sharing gardening mishaps,<\/p>\n\n\n\n binge-watching, and pancake nights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Living between Japan and Oregon, they embrace a calm, joyful life together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An Unexpected Match When 26-year-old Yuki announced she was marrying 70-year-old Kenji, friends were shocked. \u201cGirl, is he rich-rich?\u201d one asked. Yuki, however, had found comfort in a kind stranger on a beach in Okinawa during a difficult time. Connection Over Convention Kenji, a retired physics professor with a quirky humor, won her over quickly. \u201cI\u2019ve lived long…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6306,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions\/6306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Connection Over Convention<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Internet Buzz<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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