KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - A 33-year-old man in northern Malaysia has married a 104-year-old woman, saying mutual respect and friendship had turned to love, a news report said Tuesday.

It was Muhamad Noor Che Musa's first marriage and his wife's 21st, according to The Star newspaper which cited a report in the Malay-language Harian Metro tabloid.

Muhamad, an ex-army serviceman said he found peace and a sense of belonging after meeting Wook Kundor, whom he said he initially sympathized with because she was childless, old and alone, the report said.

"I am not after her money, as she is poor," Muhamad reportedly said. "Before meeting Wook, I never stayed in one place for long."

He said he hoped to help his new bride to master Roman script while she taught him Islamic religious knowledge.

The report did not say if any of Wook's previous 20 husbands are still alive.

Malaysian Muslim men are allowed by their religion to take up to four wives at a time, but reports of women who marry more than once are rare. Muslim women do not practice polygamy.

Malaysia's 26 million population comprises about 60 percent Muslims, almost all ethnic Malays. Large ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities are Buddhists, Hindus or Christians.

I don't even want to know what the wedding night was like.

WOW - that is crazy. She was married 20 times before this too? Interesting. So this age difference has to be a record huh...

To each his own. One man's cryptkeeper may be another man's Carmen Electra.

Ick.

*vomits*

People like that are serious psychotic nutjobs.

!!!

That's like this lady on Maury Povich who was like 90 years-old and was dating this 30-something year-old guy, and then dumped him for a younger man!!!

I always say that age is just a number, but this is just.. a little odd.

I hope they are happy together?

Ick.

*vomits*

People like that are serious psychotic nutjobs.

I think it's funny when people say "love is love" in regards to gay relationships, yet an age difference is something totally different.

Love is love, no matter how old the lovers are.

I would now like to borrow and slightly modify a quote from 'The Golden Girls' if I may...

"When a man 33-year-old man marries a 104-year-old woman, chances are he's not after her body."

I mean, I can understand if he married her to take care of her. You know? But I just can't imagine there being any sexual chemistry!

But love is love, and if they're both happy, then so be it.

LOL at that Golden Girls quote! Pretty much any event in my life can be related to an episode of that show.