Strange old lady addicted to eating paper for 60 years

(Baonghean.vn) -She is a normal woman like everyone else, but has a strange hobby. That is, she is "addicted" to eating paper when she was only 20 years old. She eats paper like eating rice, sometimes she even feels it is "more delicious" than meat or fish.

Clip of old lady Duong Thi Lan talking about her story of eating paper:

Old lady Duong Thi Lan demonstrates her way of eating paper

She is Duong Thi Lan, 83 years old, currently living alone in Xuan Huong hamlet, Nghi Duc commune (Vinh city, Nghe An). For more than 60 years, since she was a young woman in her 20s, she has had a strange hobby: eating paper.

Mrs. Lan said she liked to eat paper before she got married. When she was young, her family was poor and ate mainly cassava. But it wasn’t because of hunger that she had to eat paper. Whenever she saw paper, she couldn’t “stop” it, she had to do everything to get paper to put in her mouth… to chew and swallow deliciously.

Mrs. Lan (left cover) chats with her neighbors.

Before, whenever she visited someone’s house and had a clean notebook or printed book that she no longer used, she would ask for it to eat. Many times, she ate the entire book. Not only that, when her children were at school, she would often sneak out her children’s notebooks and books to eat when they were not at home.

After stopping eating paper, Mrs. Lan's health improved.

At first, no one in her family knew that she had this unusual hobby. But over time, everyone discovered it and strongly opposed it. However, she still could not control her "addiction" to eating paper whenever she saw notebooks or books. Therefore, she had to wait until no one was in the house to secretly ask for paper to eat to satisfy her craving.

Ms. Lan said that in the past, she ate so much paper that her digestive system could not take it, her skin turned yellow, and she had to take medicine. After she got better, Ms. Lan looked for paper to eat again.

It is known that Ms. Lan's parents and other relatives do not have anyone who shares the same strange hobby as her.

Due to her increasingly poor health, Ms. Lan has been "quitting" paper for about 2 years now. However, she still craves paper, but she has been able to control it because she does not want her health to depend on books and newspapers.

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