Emailed to me by Anthony..."Louise and I were first loves.  We met when I was nearly 17, and she was nearly 16, in 1990.  We fell completely, utterly in love.  Capital L Love.  We split up, but nobody, in all those years, has ever felt the same in my heart as Louise.  I always thought it was just nostalgia for first love - I didn't realise it was because Louise was my only true love.
 
Louise and I had no contact at all - not a single word - for over 20 years.  I contacted her last year, just to see where she had ended up in the world, and we fell in love again.  Within a few months I was begging the RAAF to send me back to Brisbane, and I was shopping for diamonds.  To be honest, I'd have married her as soon as I saw her again, face to face.
 
I feel as though life has presented me with a miracle - a second chance at first love.  Twenty years after getting it all wrong as a 17 year old, I have the chance to marry the one person in my life uniquely able to make me happy."