OP meets a girl on a plane.

Manly Photo of OP

This is a manly photo of me. Okay, technically, this is a photo of me in Manly, Australia.

OP's on a Plane

A while back, I flew from London back to NY, on my way home from a solo vacation in Scotland. Because I'm a big fella, British Airways kindly changed my seat to 40C, the bulkhead row. (Photo from google images).

This woman was on the same flight.

The benevolent gods of air travel smiled upon me that day. British Airways changed her seat to 40A. (After take off, I convinced 40B he'd be more comfortable in another seat).

She is English, and was on her way to Australia to migrate there. (Okay, actually, she was engaged to marry someone else). She had a few days' layover, so we spent some time together in NY before she left for Australia.

She is awesome.

She lived in the Australian rain forest for 6 months with nothing but a sarong and a bikini. (No joke). But she can also be prim and proper. She can be nerdy, she can be cool.

Drama!

When she got to Australia, she decided to break it off with her fiance. She had no money, no visa, and no job. She had to return to the UK.

She spent a few weeks in Australia thinking things over, and I wrote to her every day. I convinced her to fly back to London through NY, and paid for her ticket.

Did I mention she is awesome?

"You paid for her airfare?!?" No ragrets.pptx.

In terms most imgurians can understand, she is like Kaylee mixed with Inara and a little bit of ass-kicking Zoe (with Saffron's bewbs). (Also, did I mention the part where she's English? She comes with the accent!)

Paperwork!

She came to NY and, a few weeks later, I proposed. Unfortunately, she was only in the US on a tourist visa and had to go back to the UK. When she tried to come back to NY from London, she was denied entry.

After a long, drawn out argument with the US government, she finally got her visa.

Happy Ending! Yay!

I may have let you believe that this was all recently. The BA flight that we met on was 11 years ago today (May 2). Our 10th wedding anniversary is this October.

Although it was uphill all the way, we both knew that we were made for each other. We kept fighting. She says I'm her Superman, but that's only because she's my Lois.

She is an amazing woman.

She's funny, smart, pretty, sexy, and best of all, she has very low standards for husbands.

Here she is at our home in NY with our beloved fur-baby, Sedona. Seddy joined our pack 6 years ago today (May 2 is a big day for the pack).

D'aww tax

TL;DR: OP is a very, very, luck man.

Thanks for reading. Here is a picture of Sedona as a puppy.