Three's Company!
HIMACHAL PRADESH, India (CNN) -- Amar and Kundan Singh Pundir are brothers. Younger brother Amar breaks rocks in a mine for a living. Kundan farms their small piece of inherited land. They live in a beautiful but remote hillside village in the clouds of Himachal Pradesh, India.
Both aged in their forties, the two brothers have lived together nearly their whole lives. They are poor and share just about everything: Their home, their work and a wife.
"See we have a tradition from the beginning to have a family of five to 10 people. Two brothers and one wife." Kundan says.
They practice what is known as fraternal polyandry -- where the brothers of one family marry the same woman. Why? Tradition and economics.
Tradition and economics? Please. I have two theories on this one. The first, one of these brothers is just real lazy, or maybe he's got no game. So he tells his brother, "listen dude, you can live here, I'll give you money, all I want in return is a crack at your wife." It's tough to pass up an offer like that I guess. My other theory is probably the right one. Two words. Super Freak. The brothers are freaks, the wife a bigger freak. I don't know what kind of other crazy stuff they're into. Knowing that cows are sacred in their country, I don't want to know what else they're into.
I understand that the middle east has about as much respect for women as Mike Tyson but isn't this odd? This is a pretty ultra conservative place. Maybe the most on the planet. How are they allowed to do this? Two brothers get to marry the same woman? Something fishy about all this. Maybe, they aren't brothers. Maybe, they are clones...

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