Keisha Shakespeare Blackmore, Staff Reporter

The inseparable Marigold and Ossie Harding. - Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer

The way to love anything is to realise it may be lost.

- Anonymous

Three months after Oswald and Marigold Harding met, they were married. Marigold says one could say it was love at first sight.

Marigold lived on Padmore Drive in St. Andrew back in 1966. She and her brother, Owen Yuen, usually passed an empty house on the block. However, one day as they made their usual trek, they noticed a car in the driveway and the windows were open but there was no one in sight. A couple weeks went by and still the new owner was not seen, but she noticed something else: "... There were no curtains or drapes at the windows. I told my brother it must be a bachelor who lives there. He asked me how I knew. I told him there were no drapes or curtains so it must be a bachelor," said Marigold.

Mysterious bachelor

As time went by, her brother was the first to meet the mysterious bachelor, Oswald. A few weeks later Marigold finally met her man. "He asked my brother who was this beautiful girl and was told I was his sister. He asked for an introduction."

Coincidentally, shortly after meeting Oswald, her friends kept telling her of a handsome bachelor who had just returned from England who she must meet. Also, while working as lab technician at Andrews Memorial Hospital at the time, her co-worker, (his aunt), also told her of her gorgeous nephew she must meet. As it turned out, Oswald was the one!

After the meeting, sparks flew and three months later they were married and off to Mexico for their honeymoon. Marigold said for her it does not look like 40 years have passed. "It seems like just yesterday. I don't say we don't have little bad patches along the way, but we don't go to bed without resolving them," she said.

Rodney and Nadja Davis - he's shy but successful

President and CEO of Cable and Wireless (C&W) Ja. Rodney Davis and his wife Nadja - Winston Sill/ Freelance Photographer

He might be a communications king now but when he first set out to capture his wife's heart, Cable & Wireless President Rodney Davis did so through an emissary.

In her words, a mutual friend knew of his interest and kept on telling her prior to passing on his phone number.

"I called him from work one day, left a message and when he returned my call, we chatted for three hours. He's the shy type but we spoke every day during our courtship of two years, and come July, it will be nine years since we were married," Mrs. Davis told Flair.