Emy
"My Asexual Story"
This blog is a travel diary, a journal, open love letters to the world and its inhabitants, humans or not. It's also more and more of a cooking blog, a vegan one that is, as I love animals and our amazing planet! It's a window on my mind and heart and I hope you enjoy your read!
I'm Emy, a 22 year-old living in Paris and studying literature and linguistics.I have a fascination for languages, learning, listening to people's stories and telling my own!
Anna Stelmakhovich & Grigory Protov "Love has No Bounderies"
Think of all the strangers that have accidentally appeared in your holiday photographs over the years.
Now imagine that you end up married to one of them, never knowing that you'd crossed paths in an obscure photo years earlier.
This is the story Alex and Donna Voutsinas will be telling people for the rest of their lives.
Decades before they got married, both Alex and Donna visited Disney World with their families. Donna's family decided to pose with one of the park's famous characters, when, serendipitously, a man with a tuft of white hair pushing a stroller made it into the photograph. Turns out, the little boy in the stroller was Alex.
“It just blew our minds when we realized,” Alex Voutsinas, 35, told the Star.
A week before their wedding, Alex and Donna were sifting through old family snapshots when they spotted Alex's dad in the photograph and made the connection, the Star reported. The couple shares their story in the video above.
Remarkably, they ended up together despite living in different countries when the photo was taken in 1980.
Bridegroom, dear to my heart,
Goodly is you beauty, honeysweet,
Lion, dear to my heart,
Goodly is your beauty, honeysweet.
You have captivated me, let me stand tremblingly before you.
Bridegroom, I would be taken by you to the bedchamber,
You have captivated me, let me stand tremblingly before you.
Lion, I would be taken by you to the bedchamber.
Bridegroom, let me caress you,
My precious caress is more savory than honey,
In the bedchamber, honey-filled,
Let me enjoy your goodly beauty,
Lion, let me caress you,
My precious caress is more savory than honey.
Bridegroom, you have taken your pleasure of me,
Tell my mother, she will give you delicacies,
My father, he will give you gifts.
Your spirit, I know where to cheer your spirit,
Bridegroom, sleep in our house until dawn,
Your heart, I know where to gladden your heart,
Lion, sleep in our house until dawn.
You, because you love me,
Give me pray of your caresses,
My lord god, my lord protector,
My Shu-Sin, who gladdens Enlil's heart,
Give my pray of your caresses.
Your place goodly as honey, pray lay (your) hand on it,
Bring (your) hand over like a gishban-garment,
Cup (your) hand over it like a gishban-sikin-garment.
Couple Allowed To Marry After 61 Years
When John Mace first saw Richard Dorr, his “heart went pitter pat.” They met in the 1950s as students at Julliard where their shared love for music turned into love for each other. John had been married before, so Richard helped raise John’s son Paul. When Paul died in 1983 in a car accident, they helped each other through the grieving.
For many years, they had to hide the truth of their affections from the world. For decades, the couple stayed together despite country-wide homophobia, and in 2011, the couple rejoiced when New York legalized gay marriage. The couple celebrated by showing family, friends, and reporters their relationship by spending the weekend performing love songs in their apartment.
Sixty-one years after their paths first crossed, John Mace, 84, and Richard Dorr, 91, wed in a quiet ceremony in June 2011.