Too Good To Be True?
/The fairytale romance that actually worked out
Walt House and Donna Martino (Photo courtesy Walt House and Donna Martino)
“You don’t know how to trust yourself until you ... take chances.”
In 2002, Donna Martino stuck a photograph on her fridge. It was a picture from the newspaper of a handsome kayaker paddling through the surf. A few months later, Donna matched with the man on a dating website.
The rest is history.
We tend to assume that improbable beginnings are a recipe for disaster — that sappy romances can’t last — that fairytale endings are only for movies. But sometimes, the real world serves up a dose of schmaltz.
This story, which first aired in 2020 and went on to win a national award, is about what happens when coincidences pile up, and strangers go out on a limb and take a chance on each other.
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