An Italian woman and Indonesian man meet, fall in love and agree to marry.
Sounds straightforward enough? But not if you include that the two met online, and that it took two years of hard work and saving money for the young lovers to finally see each other in person.
This pre-pandemic love story, published in the Jakarta Post, still had the power to tug at my heartstrings, with details like this:
Ilaria said she conveyed her plan to marry Dzulfikar to her parents in Italy and that they gave her consent to do so. “For two years, I saved money I got from working in a restaurant in Italy just to come to Indonesia,” said Ilaria.
The full story, which you can read online, includes photos of the two.
Wherever Ilaria and Dzulfikar are, here’s wishing the two of them the happily ever after they deserve!
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