The couple born on the same day at the same hospital have fallen in love after meeting for the first time on their 18th birthdays. They are now planning to marry on their 18th wedding anniversary.
It was 26 years ago, December 22 1992, that Shauna Gracey came into the world just hours apart and metres away from her soulmate Tom Maguire.
Despite living less than three miles apart all their lives in Wigan, Greater Manchester, the pair never crossed paths again until Boxing Day 2010.
During their birthday celebrations, a mutual friend introduced them – and Tom, an engineer, fell in love at first sight.
Shauna refused Tom’s advances over social media and even told him to ‘leave me alone’ at one point.
It was about two months after they first met that they crossed paths again on a night out and ended up sharing a drunken kiss around the time of their second meeting.
Despite those attempts, Shauna tried to dodge her admirer, but in April 2011, after many more pledges of love, the persistent Tom finally got his girl and the couple became ‘official’ in the end.
Within two weeks, their incredible love story will come to its fairytale end when they get married at a church in their hometown.
Shauna, a children’s nurse, said: “Tom was so eager from the start. In addition to telling me he loved me, he was adamant that we would be together.
As a friend, I told him that we wouldn’t end up together, I just wasn’t interested.
One night, we were out, and I looked over and saw him and thought, “Oh my God, I like him so much.”.
‘We’ve been together for eight years now and I couldn’t be happier.
Now more than ever, I feel like we met by fate.
“It’s so nice that we were born in the same city on the same day,” she said.
It’s fun to tell people and see their reactions.
She believes Tom arrived seven hours after Shauna, who was born at the now closed Billinge Hospital 13 weeks premature.
Both couples went to school in Wigan and lived close to one another throughout their childhoods. They are now set to tie the knot on May 4.
Shauna was dressed as Minnie Mouse and Tom as a ninja the first time they met.
As Shauna recalls, she had not even seen his face properly when he approached her at the end of the night and said, “We should do this again.”
Eventually, the pair realized they were born just hours apart in the same place.
A surprise romantic getaway to Rome in October 2016 led Tom, who works at the Heinz factory in Wigan, to propose.
According to him, the story of how we met is definitely weird. The funny coincidences definitely add a special touch to the relationship.
People who hear about it love to hear it.
Source: Daily Mail, Elitereaders
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