Lonely farmer finds love thanks to a milk carton.
Posted by Capri on September 20, 2007
A Welsh farmer who placed a lonely hearts advert on a milk carton hopes to marry a US woman who answered his plea.
Geraint Evans, 28, hadn’t had a girlfriend for almost five years because his long days at work often ended at 11pm, reports the North Wales Daily Post.
The dairy herdsman was one of a number of North Wales farmers who persuaded a dairy company to put their photographs on cartons with an email address.
Interior design student Laura Allison, 21, from Chicago, was holidaying in the UK when she saw Geraint’s face on a pint of milk she bought near his Wrexham home.
She said: “I’d dropped by a supermarket to pick up some provisions and when I got to the milk racks, all I could see was this handsome guy’s face staring out at me. I think I fell in love a little right there and then.”
But she decided to wait until she returned home before getting in touch.
Since then the couple have exchanged hundreds of email messages, phone calls and letters and have visited each other.
Geraint said: “I’ve met the girl of my dreams and I want us to marry as soon as she’s finished her course in America.
“We get on so well. This is the real thing and the sooner we can get wed the better, as far as I’m concerned. I’d marry Laura tomorrow.
“We share the same sense of humour and we’re both adventurous. We must be or we’d never have met.”
