She literally fell at his feet.It was fall 2005 and Liu Yu and Victoria Stockton were both teachers at the Tianjin Experimental High School. After months of inventing excuses to visit his office, Liu was finally coming to observe Stockton’s English class.
But Stockton mentally mixed up the times and was running late, physically running late. She was sprinting in “tall shoes and a gray jacket,” Liu still remembers, until he appeared in the classroom door right in the middle of her path.
Stockton gasped, threw her hands in the air and did an awkward pirouette slamming to the ground and sliding to a stop just under Liu’s feet.
Shortly after that he fell in love with her.
In July 2008, the couple, an American woman and a Chinese man, were wed in South Africa at the confluence of two oceans, celebrating the union of their two foreign hearts.
Theirs is a unique and true love story. Unique because a foreign woman with a Chinese man is rare. True because this is far from the defining aspect of their relationship.
Read the rest of my column on the Post-Tribune's Web site here
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This is a fantastic story. As a foreign woman who is also married to a Chinese guy (like Victoria and Liu, for love, and not the cache of it), it's refreshing to see people like us in the news. Thanks so much for sharing.
My Husband is from Nanjing China and I am from the US. He and I were married December 11,2011. Its always nice to ready about a happy ending.
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