Disabled best-selling author gets married

Disabled best-selling author gets married

TOKYO, Japan - Hirotada Ototake (file photo), the author of a bestseller about his life virtually without limbs, married a student of Tokyo's Waseda University on the day of her graduation March 25, according to his Web site. Ototake, 24, said through his agents March 27 that he is grateful for being ''given a strong partner at such an early stage of my life.''

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