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Prospective brides ease Spanish town's sex imbalance
May 16, 1997
Web posted at: 6:11 p.m. EDT (2211 GMT)VILLAMIEL, Spain (CNN) -- Lonely hearts in a remote Spanish town, where men outnumber women five-to-one, hit the jackpot after their plight was made public in South America.
Offers of marriage from all over Brazil have flooded in to the bachelors of Villamiel, a village near the Portuguese border.
Previous efforts to change the imbalance of the sexes had proved unsuccessful. For example, women from the entire region were invited to attend a bullfight in Villamiel, but few accepted the offer.
The men's luck changed when Brazil's TV Globo reported their story. Villamiel has been inundated with amorous offers, coming in faxes, phone calls and even videos.
Several romances have already bloomed and some weddings are planned.
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