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longevity

On-Yomi: ジュ、ス、シュウ — Kun-Yomi: ことぶき、ことぶ.く、ことほ.ぐ

Koohii stories:

1) [fuaburisu] 25-10-2005(231): This old China man glued shrubs to his body. The added intake of oxygen from the shrubs was, according to him, the secret of his longevity. Sometimes he would sit all day in meditation without moving, and the locals believed the old man had actually turned into a shrub !

2) [radical_tyro] 6-7-2007(104): To ensure longevity of her virginity, Alice applied a thick layer of glue on her bush.

3) [sarek05] 28-9-2008(96): In an attempt to increase a bush's longevity, an incompitent gardener glues all the leaves back on that have fallen off. Maybe he should have tried watering it instead.

4) [skinnyneo] 25-11-2007(17): The only reason "President Bush" has had such longevity in the white house is all the people under him who keep gluing his presidential career back together.

5) [sir_sanuk] 26-1-2011(13): Increase the longevity of a bush by sticking the fallen leaves back on with glue.

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