LIFE HAPPENS
This is one of the best stories of how a couple came together, that I've read anywhere to date.
From the New York Sunday Times Vows section, some excerpted clips:
"FRANCES WU said she was pushing 30 in 2000 when she fled New York for Tokyo. She did so partly to put distance between herself and a beau, who she said had wasted four years of her life.
She also hoped to find a husband in Japan. But there she heard herself heartlessly referred to as a “Christmas cake"...
"Ms. Wu is a Virginia-born Chinese-Japanese American, who speaks more Japanese than Chinese"...
"...a Bryn Mawr classmate talked her into trying a dating Web site. Her posting asked for a “tall Chinese” man, in part to please her parents. Soon, she received a reply from a man named Rommel Nobay."
"Mr. Nobay, whose first language is Swahili, did not meet her description at all but offered a family tree as complicated as her own. Like all the men in his family, he was named for a military leader, in his case Field Marshal Erwin Rommel..."
"Mr. Nobay was born in New York, but spent most of his youth in Kenya, his parents’ birthplace, and also in Goa in India, where their ancestors originated. Eventually his family settled in the United States, where he learned English, graduated from Princeton and received a master’s in public health from Yale."
I don't know Frances Wu or Rommel Nobay.
But I love their story, and wish them all the very best for their life together. Their story is the classic example of how life happens in amazing ways while one makes plans...on the internet and off.
And Mrs. Nobay, I also like the name you suggest for your first-born son at the end of the Times article.
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