Man's ad to sell nagging wife draws suitors

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We're pretty certain this Englishman who put his wife up for sale in a classified ad was kidding, because we're also pretty certain that sort of thing is illegal. But that didn't stop hordes of strange men who saw the ad from actually calling Gary Bates to inquire about his wife Donna, who was described in the ad as a "nagging wife" who is "very high maintenance" and has "some rust." Gary wasn't really going out of his way to advertise Donna; he was already there to sell some fishing tackle.

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