Ukrainian social workers rescued an American who came to the former Soviet Republic to marry a woman who never showed up to meet him in the town of Chernivtsi, according to this Washington Post article.

Cary Dolego, who was once a write-in candidate for Arizona governor, traveled to the Ukraine for an engineering research project and to look for a wife. He traveled to Chernivtsi in hopes of marrying a woman he met online named Yulia but she never showed up for a planned meeting.

Dolego ran out of money and ended up homeless, hungry and suffering from pneumonia when social workers found him. The U.S. Embassy loaned Dolego money to return home but Dolego said he plans to return to the Ukraine to continue his search for love.