He had waited for what seemed like a lifetime for this moment.

She walked in with her head held high, her eyes searching.

In the afternoon sun she looked beautiful, her plump lips turned upwards into a small smile and her cheekbones high on her milky skin.

Her teeth were not straight and her blonde hair was a little limp, but to him she was no less than perfect.

She turned to see him and her smile grew to reveal her slightly crooked teeth, and in that moment he knew he would love no other woman the way he loved her.

“Mummy!â€? The boy cried, and leapt into his mother’s warm embrace as she stood at the school gate to meet him.