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   From: stevenb@injectionmold.com   
      
   A week after Hong Kong tycoon Cecil Chao doubled his 2012 offer   
   of $64 million to any man who could marry his gay daughter, Gigi   
   Chao has publicly rebuked him and urged her dad to accept her   
   partner of nine years.   
      
   “There are plenty of good men, they are just not for me,” she   
   wrote in an open letter published by two Hong Kong newspapers on   
   Wednesday. “It would mean the world to me if you could just not   
   be so terrified of [girlfriend Sean Eav], and treat her like a   
   normal, dignified human being.”   
      
   It was after learning that the couple had eloped and received a   
   church blessing in Paris that Cecil Chao announced his original   
   dowry offer. Some 20,000 suitors applied, and since the tycoon   
   upped his bait Gigi Chao has been deluged with phone calls, one   
   of the callers reportedly exclaiming, “I want to be a   
   billionaire!”   
      
   To her credit, she also showed a magnanimous spirit in her   
   letter.   
      
   “I will always forgive you for thinking the way you do, because   
   I know you think you are acting in my best interests,” she wrote.   
      
   Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen may not be so forgiving, however. The   
   actor behind the film Borat is currently working on a movie   
   inspired by Cecil Chao’s dowry offer, the Associated Press   
   reports.   
      
   http://world.time.com/2014/01/29/gigi-chao-pens-letter-to-cecil-   
   chao/?iid=obinsite   
      
       
      
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