Taipei - A Taiwan woman, heart-broken over a broken-off love
affair, confined herself to her home for 30 years, a newspaper reported
Tuesday.

For the past 30 years, Ah Fang, 56, has never stepped out her home
in Tainan City, south Taiwan, and has been cared for by her mother, the
United Daily News (UDN) said.

But her mother is now bedridden after a car accident, so neighbours and relatives are taking food and clothes to Ah Fang now.

Thirty years ago, Ah Fang was a quiet young woman working in a wood
barrel factory and fell in love with a colleague at the factory. UDN
did not report the reason for the break-up, but it left a deep
psychological scar on Ah Fang with her refusing to leave her home ever
since.

Ah Fang's brothers and sisters have married and moved out. She now
lives with her mother and a blind and mentally-retarded younger sister
in their two-storey home in Tainan.

"Even when she got ill, she refused to go to hospital. Her mother
had to buy medicine from the pharmacy for her," the UDN quoted a
neighbour as saying.

Despite her three-decade confinement, she seems to be in good
health and in a UDN photo of Ah Fang sitting in an armchair at home her
skin is extremely white. dpa