NEED TO KNOW

Two teens, Kerri and Dirk, fell in love while on vacation together in Europe. Nearly three decades later they ended up together

The couple grew apart after their initial trip and even went on to marry other people

After tragedy struck both Kerri and Dirk, another trip connected them back together

In the summer of 1993, a 14-year-old American teenager named Kerri Cunningham left her home in New York, to join her parents on a trip around Europe. The vacation would take Kerri, her parents and two sisters to the U.K., France and then on a two-week-bus tour through Italy.

While the Cunninghams crossed the English Channel on a ferry to France, Kerri’s parents started chatting with an English family of tourists: the Stevenses. It turned out the families were embarking on the sam

See Full Page