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Mubaba time: Embracing cross generational love

Beyond financial security, older men bring emotional maturity, life experience, and a readiness to settle down, qualities that appeal to women who are looking for stability (Photo: iStock)

Laura Wamoto had just fallen out with her college boyfriend with whom she had a baby when she met her online heartthrob. He was 50. She was 23. Her baby was five.

Six months into the online relationship, Friedrich Leo, a Berlin-based German native traveled to Kenya to meet Laura. He had been divorced for seven years, after a 24-year marriage, and now wanted to settle down again.

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