Romeo and Juliet. This is probably the most famous lovers ever. The true love story of Antony and Cleopatra is one of the most memorable, intriguing and moving of all times. The tragic love story of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere is probably one of the best-known stories of Arthurian Legend. So, we have heard of so many love stories.
But the story we are going to tell you is not a famous love story of history and literature. This is the story of Michael Apu Mondol, 28, a resident of Kaunia in Barisal, and Sarah Kuhn, a 28-year-old American, who met on Facebook a year ago and are now engaged.
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Story of Apu Mandal and Sarah Kuhn
Apu and Sarah became met in a Facebook group on November 19, 2017, and later became friends. They started chatting and this was the start of their love story.
Gradually they both started talking to each other and with this Sarah started liking Apu. From normal chats to romantic messages and video calls their relationship became so strong.
The first meeting
The long distance relationship went for one year and then the couple decided to meet. Sarah, a nurse at an old age home, flew all the way from her hometown of Minnesota to Barisal to meet Apu, who is a house painter in Kaunia. Sarah landed at Dhaka airport, Bangladesh where she met her love Apu for the first time. From there they traveled to Apu’s village Barisal, where she was greeted by the family members of Apu.
The marriage
Apu’s family welcomed Sarah and greeted her with pleasure. They did not have any problems with Sarah’s nationality and religion. Soon after they fixed dates for various marital ceremonies. As Apu and Sarah belong to Christianity, they first took their vows in a Church than being a Bengali couple they also married by Bengali rituals.
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Their marriage took place in a hotel of Bandar Road, Barisal, Bangladesh. As soon as the news of their marriage spread in the region a huge crowd gathered around Apu’s house to see the foreign bride.
They initially decided to get married in the USA but it couldn’t happen
Earlier the couple decided to marry in the US but due to some visa issue, Apu couldn’t go there. So Sarah came to Bangladesh to marry him, she even learned Bengali so that she can form a better relationship with Apu’s family.
In this era, Social media causes us to have this false feeling of intimacy and closeness with people that we actually know nothing about, therefore, we get to see an infinite number of fake love stories on social media, Apu and Sarah’s love story is really hard to believe. Their marriage life has really set an example for others.
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