Sounds Like a Country Song

James Taranto reports on a touching AFP story,

Bakr Melhem, a Jordanian man, was separated from his wife, Sanaa, and was feeling lonely. So he adopted a pseudonym, "Adnan," and struck up a romance with a woman named Jamila. Agence France-Presse reports what happened next:

Cyber love blossomed between the pair for three months and soon they were making wedding plans. To pledge their troth in person, they agreed to meet in the flesh near a bus depot in the town of Zarqa, northeast of Amman.

It turned out Jamila was really Sanaa, Bakr's estranged wife--which wouldn't have been a problem except that, as noted above, Adnan was actually Bakar. It made for an awkward moment:

Upon seeing Sanaa-alias-Jamila, Bakr-alias-Adnan turned white and screamed at the top of his lungs: "You are divorced, divorced, divorced"--the traditional manner of officially ending a marriage in Islam.

"You are a liar," Sanaa retorted before fainting, the agency said.

Too bad they didn't like pina coladas.

Via Best of the Web.
- posted by Base10 @ 12:25 PM