True love, real people
Sometimes love begins with multiple challenges. Our anonymous story is about a lovely couple who were over 40 and 60 when they met. They were separated via jobs, culture and countries but joined via the heart. Great obstacles were on the way to their union. In this struggle between love and circumstance, guess which emerged victorious? Read on for this touching story of making the impossible possible with love. Names:
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Names: Cathy & Earle Status: Married Been together since: 1971 Cathy: It was August 1971. I met Earle when we started working for a mail machine company in Washington DC in the same department. I was the ‘important’ secretary of the big manager and he as the ‘lowly’ employee who used to answer service calls when someone had a technical problem like machine jams. We started on the same day, a Monday,
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Names: Meltem & Hakan Status: Married Been together since: 1996 We didn’t even notice each other for three years… Meltem: Hakan and I met in Ankara, Turkey, as we were both singers in a choir. We were both in committed relationships with other people at the time so we hardly even noticed each other for three whole years. As fate would have it, our relationships eventually came to an end and, just like
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Names: Metin & Vita Status: Married Been together since: 2014 Metin: I had just returned to Turkey from Thailand and was not in the best of places emotionally. I found I was staying home a lot, I was not feeling happy and could sense dark clouds above me. I was on Facebook one day talking to my friend Mustafa, who lives in New York. As we were chatting, I saw photos
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Names: Roxana & David Status: Married Been together since: 1999 Roxana: We met at work. We started working for Bose on the same day and met when we went for our orientation together – June 23rd, 1997. We exchanged our first words during our coffee break where we ended up sitting opposite each other. We discovered we had similar backgrounds with his parents being Syrian-Lebanese and myself being raised in Dubai.
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Names: Esma & Eray Status: In a relationship Been together since: 2011 I have been involved in politics for over 30 years. My story begins during the elections. There were many meetings going on so my phone was always on, just in case. One night, early 2011, at 4:20 am I received a message. It was a beautiful poem of love. I was wondering who in the world would send
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Names: Figen & Kemal Status: Married Been together since: 1965 or 1993 Kemal: It was around 1965. I was 5 or 6 and we lived in Istanbul. Figen’s parents had just separated. My father decided to take them under his wings and into our home. There was Figen, her mother and her elder sister, who was my age. Figen was cross-eyed when she was a child and although her sister was considered
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Names: Nicole & Philip Status: Married Been together since: 1981 or 2011 It was 1981. I was living in Holland and was going to the USA for Christmas to spend it with my best friend Barbara. She wrote me a letter before I arrived saying she knew this really lovely guy and that we had to get together. She was telling me how gorgeous he was and apparently, she was telling
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Names: Carmen & Aaron Status: Married Been together since: 2012 Aaron: It was 14th July 2009. I was living in a villa in Dubai and we loved hosting theme parties. The theme this year was space and as one of the hosts, I was making a big effort with my costume and was dressed up as Buzz Lightyear. Carmen was dressed as a Martian girl. I spent most of the night
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Names: Eunjung & Yves Status: Married Been together since: 2011 Yves: I was having a challenging time during 2010. I had a breakdown and left behind absolutely everything that had defined me and my life up until that point and headed into a void, letting go of everything. I arrived in Kaua’i in Hawaii at the start of 2011. The traumatic phase I was in manifested itself physically and I
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Names: Monique & Quinton Status: Engaged, (Updated 2015) Married, (updated 2016) Became parents. Been together since: 2013 About 14 months ago a mutual friend sent me a message saying that one of his good friends, Quinton, was moving to Dubai, where I live. He asked if I could show him around. I said, “Sure!” He arrived a month before he was to move just to sign his contract. We met the day
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Names: Valentina & Leo Status: Widowed Been together since: 1966 or 1980 until 1997 I am not going to lie, my story has got twists and turns that I never imagined possible, life played cruel jokes on me and then showered me with blessings again. Looking back at the journey of my true but crazy love, I smile and the warmth fills my heart, because I know that I did
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Names: Refika & Rudi Relationship status: Married Been together since: 2005 Our story began in December 2005. Actually, the universe had apparently started working for us before that but I had no idea! It had become a regular annual event to have dinner with our salsa group every December. That year we were running late. I kept urging them to arrange it. We finally got it organized at my dear
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Names: Ates & Gulsen Relationship status: Married Been together since: 1962 I was 17 and Ates was 23. We met in law school in Ankara, Turkey in 1962. Ates was climbing up the stairs and started talking to my friend who was standing next to me. He completely ignored me for quite a few minutes and for some strange reason I wished from the bottom of my heart for this young,
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Names: Gulay & Korky Status: Married Been together since: 2002 My husband Korky and I met in 2002 in a city that belonged to none of us, a city that I loved and he happened to hate so much, Ankara in Turkey. I was trying to be set up on a subtle blind date with a friend of my sister’s as I was in town for a few days and Korky was
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Names: Melissa & Mike Status: Married Been together since: 2010 or 1994 years – depends how you look at it. Mike and I were high school sweethearts, actually for me it was junior high. We saw each other at a party when I was fourteen and he was seventeen, but we didn’t speak and I was on my way out. Later, when a mutual friend conveyed the message that this random
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