PHOTO: Woman Turns Up Alive 10 Years After Being Presumed Dead

A 24-year-old woman who vanished a decade ago has been discovered living in internet cafes in Zhejiang province, China.

The woman, called Xiao Yun, ran away from home when she was just 14-years-old after arguing with her mother over problems at school.

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Since that time she was eating, playing and sleeping in internet cafes and bath houses around the country.

For the past decade she was living on hand-outs from good samaritans and once worked as a cashier.

The woman was only reunited with her family after someone reported her to police and her identity card was found to be a fake.

Her mother said: “I’ve dreamed of her coming home countless times. I have a stubborn personality and a short temper, so I used to scold her. But it’s been 10 years and now she’s an adult. I will never scold her again.”

The parents said they had almost given up hope seeing their long-lost daughter again and promised never to argue again.

It is not the first case of a person uses an internet cafe as its home. In 2013, a Chinese game addict reportedly spent six years in the same café in Changchun.

Source: Naij