This Woman Met Her Future Husband on a Train—After Her Boyfriend Fell Asleep

One woman didn’t let her boyfriend get in the way of finding her husband. In an interview with CNN, Maire Clifford recalled taking a six-hour train ride with her then-boyfriend, during which she met her future husband.

While traveling via train from London to Edinburgh in 2000, a then- 20-something Clifford found herself bored after her boyfriend nodded off beside her. She decided to make her way to the smoking area of the train, which she found empty, save on man with a backpack.

She asked the mystery man for a light for her cigarette and the rest, as they say, is history.

“I sat down, and we started talking,” she recalled to the outlet. “And I just remember being struck by how easy [it was]. There was a real sense of familiarity.”

Who Was the Mystery Man?

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