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Finding love through a matchmaking tree

Karl-Heinz Martens is a retired postman from Germany who had a very unusual beat - he delivered thousands of letters to a tree known as Bridegroom's Oak. They were love letters, written by people in the hope that a potential partner might read them and reply.

(Photo: A love letter sticks out through a small hollow in the trunk of Bridegroom's Oak. Credit: Eliot Stein)

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6 minutes