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VIDEO: Couple Holds Guinness World Record for Being the ‘Shortest Married Couple in the World’

True love doesn’t care about age, looks, shape or size.

It comes in all forms and doesn’t care about the exterior.

And, sometimes, people are lucky enough to find their absolute PERFECT match!

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Paulo Gabriel da Silva Barros and Katyucia Lie Hoshino are the smallest married couple in the world.

Read their full story below, provided by Viral 4 Real,

Meet Paulo Gabriel da Silva Barros and Katyucia Lie Hoshino—the smallest married couple in the world. Though they lack in height, the couple sure makes up with their big heart and their love that towers over everyone.

Paulo, who works as a legal secretary, met Katyucia on social media and began to hit it off from there. Katyucia, who owns a beauty salon herself, immediately felt a spark between them, which prompted her to date him.

However, things weren’t immediately easy for the couple. Their rocky start almost sent them their own ways. Fortunately, Katyucia decided to give their love another chance—and she was always glad she did! Today, the married couple holds the Guinness World Record of Being the ‘Shortest Married Couple in the World’.

The couple’s combined height is 71.42 inches, which is less than 5 feet tall. “We hope our new record will encourage the world to look past the physical differences in others and understand all people should be treated equally,” they said in a statement.

According to Wikipedia, on 10 November 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the Guinness Breweries, went on a shooting party in the North Slob, by the River Slaney in County Wexford, Ireland. After missing a shot at a golden plover, he became involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe, the golden plover or the red grouse.

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That evening at Castlebridge House, he realized that it was impossible to confirm in reference books whether or not the golden plover was Europe’s fastest game bird.

Beaver knew that there must be numerous other questions debated nightly in pubs throughout Ireland and abroad, but there was no book in the world with which to settle arguments about records. He realized then that a book supplying the answers to this sort of question might prove successful.

Beaver’s idea became reality when Guinness employee Christopher Chataway recommended University friends Norris and Ross McWhirter, who had been running a fact-finding agency in London. The twin brothers were commissioned to compile what became The Guinness Book of Records in August 1954. A thousand copies were printed and given away.

After the founding of The Guinness Book of Records at 107 Fleet Street, the first 198-page edition was bound on 27 August 1955 and went to the top of the British best seller lists by Christmas. The following year, it launched in the US, and sold 70,000 copies.

Since then, Guinness World Records has become a household name and the global leader in world records. The book has gone on to become a record breaker in its own right; with sales of more than 100 million copies in 100 different countries and 37 languages, Guinness World Records is the world’s best selling copyright book ever.

Joanna Grey

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