A married man in China who turned to the media to find the first love who loaned him money 20 years ago has captivated mainland social media.
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At the end of October, a man, surnamed Li, who lives in Huaibei, Anhui province, eastern China, called the Henan Provincial TV Station’s programme Xiaoli Helps You.
The show is popular for helping solve the problems of ordinary people.
Li thought his first love might still live in Henan.

He and the woman, identified as Ma, met in 1991 when he was 23 and she was 25, divorced and had a child from her previous marriage.
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