Father's act of love aims to save son
Dong Dajun, father of a 5-year-old boy, was once an accountant at a company in Linyi, Shandong province, but now he pretends to be a woman selling flowers at an underpass near a hospital more than 600 kilometers away in Beijing.
He dresses in a thin, red robe and wears women's wigs in freezing temperatures hoping to attract the attention of more pedestrians and sell more flowers so he can save his son, Hui Hui, who is critically ill with lymph cancer. The boy is currently in an intensive care unit at Beijing Children's Hospital.
"No one responded to me or bought flowers in the beginning when I dressed normally," he said. "Then I remembered that whenever I would dress up in my wife's clothes, my son would laugh happily. Besides, people may notice me when I dress as a woman."
