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A really nice story, I hope their happy ending continues for many years.

Family can indeed ruin many a happy couple. A friend´s daughter in UK had been going out with the son of a local restaurant owner for 4 years, never any complaint from the son´s family. They planned to get engaged then disaster happened, the son was very quickly sent to Pakistan to marry a girl his parents had chosen, the boy didn´t even have the chance to tell my friend´s daughter. Obviously my friend´s daughter tried to find out why her boyfriend had suddenly disappeared, this resulted in the father of the boy paying a visit to her parents and telling them in no uncertain terms to stop the girl trying to contact his son, he also told them that in future they would no longer be welcome in his restaurant. Not a happy ending.

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What a heartwarming story susan m. How did he find her? - was it through facebook?

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A lovely story Susan
I have one with not such a happy ending.

My Dad met a girl called Beatrice in the 1920s the love of his life I guess.
He was diagnosed with T1 diabetes she with Tuberculosis both conditions carried the possibility of a death sentence at that time so they decided to part

Dad mastered his diabetes with the help of a new 'wonder drug' insulin then met and married my mother, Beatrice had emigrated with her parents to Canada where she later married.

Dad heard from a mutual acquaintance that Beatrice was alive and well at 80, Dad lived to be 89 .
The irony of this is my mother died in her early 30. Maybe we should all follow our dreams however impossible they seem at the time.

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Hi Carol , he searched for two years, wrote to local papers in her old home town. From Australia (where she once lived) through these letters he found her in the UK . I believe facebook had some impact but not through him . Lovely isn't it

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Nowadays we can search the Data, Data is our friend.