Silent Treatment

In 1997, a Japanese man stopped speaking to his wife after an argument and stayed silent for 20 years. Despite living in the same house and raising three children together, he refused to talk to her, communicating only through nods and gestures. In 2017, after their son contacted a TV show to help reunite them, the husband finally apologized in a public meeting arranged at a park ending two decades of silence.

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