If you had told me a few years ago that I would fall in love with a woman living five time zones away, I would not believe you and consider this to be a joke and would have laughed. Because by that stage in my life, when I thought I understood how things worked, little did I know that life would throw a curveball that completely flips the script of my life…especially when my life had already shown me its major surprises. When I look back at the sequence of events. Be it the near misses, losing each other, flights, paperwork, hospital visits, visa refusals, bureaucratic mistakes, or the emotional rollercoaster that accompanied all of it, I sometimes struggle to believe that it all happened to two ordinary people who simply wanted to be together. This is a story about love in the strangest way possible and how it can intervene in the most personal parts of your life, when you do not know that you are going to meet someone who lives five time zones away during a period of global tension. (I thought she lived in Leith an hour away from me !!)