Tanya Gupta and Charlotte Benton
BBC News, West Midlands
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Kirsty and Donovan were brought together by one random, apparently made-up phone number
When Donovan Shears sent a text message to a random number in 1998, it changed the course of his life.
He had been given his first mobile phone for his 18th birthday and had just discovered text messaging.
He made up a random number and sent off a message saying “hello”, to which his future wife Kirsty wrote back “hi”.
“That single moment led to over 20 years of love, laughter, and partnership,” they said.
Out of several messages to unknown numbers he sent from the Coventry pub where he was working that night, Kirsty in Cleethorpes was the only one to reply.
Fast forward four years, and the couple were getting married in Scotland, where Kirsty is from. They now also have two children, aged six and nine.
We still do: Kirsty and Donovan Shears
Kirsty said she replied to Donovan’s message thinking it was someone she knew, but whose number she had not saved in her phone.
Speaking to BBC CW
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