We all know how the sight of a roaring real fire can add romance to any situation, but this next story, taken from the British news site, Metro, really does add fuel to the fire…
Steve Smith and Carmen Ruiz-Perez spent their first Valentine’s Day together last month after getting back together.
They plan to marry in the summer.The couple, who are both 42, first met while Spanish Ms Ruiz-Perez was a foreign student in England.
They got engaged but found that her having to regularly fly to the Paris boutique she ran proved too much and they split.
Mr Smith traced the address of his ex-girlfriend’s mother in Spain ten years ago and sent a letter but her mother left it above a fireplace and it eventually slipped behind it.
However, she recently discovered the love note and gave it to her daughter.
‘After reading it, I nearly didn’t phone him at all. I kept picking it then putting it down again,’ said Ms Ruiz-Perez. ‘But I had to call.’
Mr Smith, from Paignton, Devon, said: ‘Within two days, I had flown to Paris and we started where we had left off all those years ago.’
He added: ‘Finding each other again was fate.’ (If only he’d said finding each other was grate…).
