Laura and Brayden Faganello just got engaged, and their love story looks just ordinary.
But, the truth is only known by close people of them. They met and fell in love three years ago, and their story has proven that some people are meant to be together and they cannot be separated by time, distance or even… memory loss.
In 2016, Laura met Brayden for the first time and fell in love with him. After three years, Laura faced a situation where she had no idea who Brayden even was. The couple had married the same year they met and after 9 months of their wedding, tragedy struck, putting their relationship on the line.
“A local wedding design/coordinator company hired me for the day to help set up an event.point 198 | We were outside decorating the big event tent, but the company was running late and didn’t have the tent walls up.point 294 |
The wind was insane that day, everything was flying everywhere and shattering.point 67 | Because everything was running late, there wasn’t a lot of care put into the safety measures.point 147 | I was tasked with decorating the tables, so as I was arranging that I heard a gasp from the girls facing me.point 234 |
I looked up and then heard (and felt!) a loud thump on my head.point 50 | A large pole (one that took two ladies to set up as it was so heavy and tall) had dislodged in the wind and fell right onto my head.point 154 | My last clear thought was “that isn’t good….point 197 | ” After that, everything went fuzzy,” Laura told Bored Panda.point 253 |
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Laura woke up with just one memory of when she was 17 years old. All memories with Brayden were completely gone.
“Before the accident, I was one year away from graduating from university.point 65 | After the accident, I struggled to read, write, and speak coherent sentences, and my damaged short term memory caused me to forget everything I read within moments.point 203 |
I had to drop out of school.point 22 | My pain levels were intense with absolutely no breaks for the first two years; I carried an airplane barf bag in my purse everywhere I went.point 137 | The absolute worst part, though, was the memory loss.point 182 | I would wake up and scream out of fear because I had no idea who my husband was.point 245 |
I would dread him coming home from work every day because then I would need to make small talk with him, just like you would with a stranger,” she explained.point 130 | point 130 | 1
She refused to give up on her marriage. So, she decided to try to fall in love with him again.
“At the start of this journey, Brayden was quite rough around the edges.point 62 | He was overwhelmed by having a wife that was so dependent on him, who didn’t even know who he was.point 143 | There were many nights I cried myself to sleep.point 182 | Eventually, he made a conscious choice to change that.point 228 |
He started being more gentle, loving, and selfless with me.point 50 | He became my best friend as I started feeling like I could open up to him.point 109 | We would go on endless drives, talking for hours.point 150 | We binged The Office and Parks And Rec a million times.point 195 | We could laugh for hours and not get tired of each other.point 241 |
I didn’t feel like I was in love with him, but I liked him.point 48 | So, I took off my rings, and I told him that I wanted to date him,” she said.point 110 | point 110 | 1
Once again, Laura started having feelings for him.point 275 |
“Brayden started leaving me cute notes on my bedside table every morning.point 64 | I started asking him on fun dates.point 92 | We would talk on the phone on his breaks, and do everything people who are newly dating would do.point 171 | One day, I realized that I had started missing him every moment we weren’t together.point 243 |
Then, I found myself bringing him up to everyone I talked to like a teenage girl with a crush does, ” Laura said.point 93 | point 93 | 1
Laura recovered from the accident in two years. And even though her life has changed, she didn’t give up and made her life beautiful again. She fell in love with the same man she loved before, and even though her memories didn’t magically come back, she made new ones. “I started to love him again. The process took a while, but it was so incredibly worth it.”
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