THE DAD WHO REFUSED TO GIVE UP
Jul 23, 2021
4 minutes
COMPILED BY DENNIS CAVERNELIS
IT WAS impossible for him to abandon his search for his abducted son. Over a period of 24 years, Guo Gangtang travelled 500 000km, criss-crossing 20 provinces in China on a motorcycle, desperately hoping to be reunited with the boy who was snatched from home when he was just two years old.
“Only on the road, I felt I’m a father,” he said in 2015. “I have no reason to stop searching. And it’s impossible for me to stop.”
Finally his search is over, his family complete once more.
An elated Gangtang (51) and his wife, Zhang Wenge, sobbed when they were reunited with
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