Woman's Own

FAST-TRACK LOVE

‘We hadn’t even been out on a date when he proposed’

Wafaa Powell, 60, lives with her husband David, 62, in Wiltshire.

When my brother’s best friend David dropped to one knee, I couldn’t help bursting out laughing in disbelief. Yet it was really happening – just two weeks after we had first met, David was proposing.

It was July 1996, and I had been visiting my older brother and his wife in South Africa when I first met David. I was instantly drawn to his friendly nature and good looks, but I was just out of an eight-year relationship and wasn’t looking to jump into another.

‘I WASN’T IN LOVE

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