Yeo Mooi, 85, longs for lost love Ah Yip

Still waiting: Seven decades on, Leong still yearns to meet her long lost sweetheart.

MALACCA: It has been almost seven decades, but an octogenarian still yearns to meet her long-lost sweetheart.

Leong Yeo Mooi, 85, was only 17 when she fell in love with Ah Yip, who she recalled fondly as “a dashing moustached man in his 20s”.