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Young Love Found Halfway Around the World

April 28, 2021

Neighbors of MN
Jill


We knew each other only as classmates but we never thought that one day we would be together.


“We lived in the same camp but a different section. I lived in section 4 and he lived in section 6A. We went to same school in Thailand and we were in the same grade together until 7th grade. We knew each other only as classmates but we never thought that one day we would be together.

Lay Ou came to the United States in 2013, two years before me. I came to the United States in 2015. His family settled in Oregon and my family moved to Minnesota.

After I had been in the United States for a couple of months I started used Facebook and we reconnected with each other on Facebook and started talking. After a year of long-distance friendship, we started a romantic relationship.


We now have one son… and we have a happy family.


He came to live in my city of St. Paul. For two-and-a-half years we dated, and on October 14, 2018 we got married. We now have one son named Jasper and we have a happy family.”

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