🎙️ The Love Story of Linda & Graham
Linda and Graham first met at a charity quiz night in 2017. Neither of them had planned to go. Linda was roped in by her sister. Graham had promised his friend Brian there'd be curry. Spoiler: there was no curry.
They were sat at the same table. Linda had the correct answer for every question involving Shakespeare. Graham kept shouting out answers before the host had finished speaking. "Loud," Linda called him. "Confident," Graham claims.
Their paths crossed again a few weeks later—at the same café. Graham was reading The Guardian. Linda was reading The Times. She remembers thinking, "Hmm. Opposites attract."
Their first proper date was a walk around Richmond Park. Linda brought sandwiches. Graham brought enthusiasm and got chased by a swan.
They both say they weren't expecting love at that point in their lives. They'd both been married before. Had grown-up kids. Had careers, mortgages, broken hearts, and full diaries. But it was easy. Natural. Real.
Graham proposed on a trip to Florence. Not in front of the cathedral or on the romantic bridge at sunset—but over breakfast in a quiet backstreet café, with Linda holding a croissant and wearing no makeup. He looked at her and said, "I don't want another decade without you in it."
Linda said yes. Then told him he'd better be serious.
Today, Graham says Linda is the love he didn't know he was still allowed to find. Linda says Graham makes her laugh, makes her safe, and makes her late to everything—but worth it.