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Afe Babalola
A chorister, a lector, one conversation.
Paul saw Mary in church. She sang in the choir; he read the lessons. One conversation turned into a friendship neither of them had planned.
Then Paul joined the choir himself, and never missed a rehearsal again. Everybody knew exactly why.
Then Easter came. Then the late-night calls.
Final year
A long walk, and the truth.
By then they were each other's closest friend. Paul took Mary on a long walk, they talked for hours, and he finally said the thing he had been carrying.
After the final-year project he came back to surprise her and asked her properly. She said yes before he had finished asking.
Manchester
Six years, one phone call at a time.
Six years of long distance, and God kept us together. Every single day: a call, a laugh down the line, a date held over a phone screen.
Then Manchester decided everything — and a wedding began to be planned.
The day
Paul marries his everything. Mary marries the man of her dreams.
A long journey behind us, a longer one still to come — and it is so exciting.
