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Guest Post: How The Military Assisted in Love

Today I have a fabulous guest writer who is sharing her story about how the Canadian Military helped her love take off!  Check out Hannah and learn more about her lovely husband and their story! In 2008, I was in my final year of university, newly single and very poor! It’s also the year that I met my husband, embarked on a long distance military fuelled relationship spanning England, Canada, Afghanistan and places in-between. If you had told me that at the time, I would have laughed. In your face. Very hard. Being rather the typical British student, my weekly budget was often limited to £10 ($15-20 CAD); it was unusual for me to choose to book a train ticket that set me back an entire £35. However, my friend in Leamington Spa was throwing a Halloween party, and needing a break from the already mounting pressure of my final research project, I jumped at the idea. Trains in the UK are fabulous, except on Sundays, where they are full and it is not uncommon to sit on the floor outside the washroom for 3 hours! Since Sunday would be my day of return, I splurged and bought first class tickets. I needed to write my research paper, didn’t cha know?! It would have been my first premier seating purchase but with free dinner included, how could I not do it? The stars must have aligned that day because the whole first class package cost me £27, I could not turn down such a deal! After a fabulous weekend in Leamington Spa, I found myself running at full speed to the train station because time keeping was not my strongest point. I finally made it, breathless and sweaty. I hopped on the train and went…