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Article: Belgium: Land of chocolate, beer and an unhappy union.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- February 12, 2007
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Byline: Tom Hundley
Feb. 12--BRUSSELS -- They've been a couple so long they can't remember what brought them together in the first place. But now they've grown apart. They don't watch the same TV shows or listen to the same music. They don't even speak the same language. About the only thing they have in common is a taste for beer and chocolate. They stay together mainly out of habit, and also because it would be such a headache to break up the household and divide the communal property. If you know a couple like this, then you will understand the Belgians.
Dutch-speaking Flanders and French-speaking Wallonia are trapped in a loveless marriage ...