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TIL 95-year-old Li Xiufeng spent 6 days inside a coffin after her neighbour assumed that she had died in her sleep after failing to wake her up. On the day before her funeral, her neighbors were stunned when they saw that the coffin was empty. Afterwards, they found her in her kitchen cooking.

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