These Childhood Sweethearts Married Each Other In A Real-Life Version Of The Notebook

In a real-life version of "The Notebook," a pair of childhood sweethearts who met each other in school have finally tied the knot after 22 years of being apart. Helen Marshall and Graeme Richardson are presently both in their forties but the love they had for each other as teenagers never wavered. They were separated following high school as their parents believed they were too young for marriage. The love letters they wrote never reached each other. However, the couple was reunited from afar when their children from different marriages ended up going to the same school. The pair eloped and married each other last month, and they now live together on a farm, Good News Network reports.

"We just feel so content now," Marshall stated in an interview with the media outlet. "We’re the other half of each other. I just feel like I’m home. Like I’m whole. He’s my soul mate, and I’m his." Richardson added, "Helen’s the other half of me. She’s the opposite [of] me; the extrovert to my introvert. It just feels like the right ending. My friends have never known me as the happy and content man I am now." The pair met each other in school and were deeply enamored.

At first, they admired each other in the hallways but they soon fell head over heels in young love as teenagers. At first, neither of them had enough courage to ask each other out on a date. That is, until one day, Marshall's friend promised her a chocolate bar if she dared to ask Richardson out. From day one, romance blossomed. The couple would spend their days in the Lake District, sitting by picturesque waters. They knew they wanted to be married and Richardson worked hard over the weekends for £3 an hour to buy her a diamond engagement ring.

They spent nine months dating, going on romantic walks, attending school discos, and sneaking off for a quick peck round the back of the bike sheds. Then, Richardson got down on one knee and proposed. Although Marshall said yes, their parents were worried the pair was too young for marriage. Therefore, Richardson went off to college in 1994 and the childhood sweethearts drifted apart from each other. Just like in the movie The Notebook, the love letters they wrote for each other never reached their respective partners. So, they got on with their separate lives.

They both married different people and had their own kids. They were even reunited from afar when their children attended the same school. Eventually, they both split up with their respective partners. So, Marshall decided to reach out to Richardson over Facebook, and they ended up falling in love with each other all over again 20 years later. After enough time, Richardson proposed yet again, getting down on one knee with the same ring he had used two decades earlier. Only this time, they were vacationing together in Croatia. Marshall and Richardson's story perhaps proves to us all that true love does indeed exist.