A woman married a man she thought might be trying to pickpocket her during a chance meeting on the Paris metro.
In September 2016 Andye, who was born in Haiti and brought up in the US, had just finished a master's degree in Amsterdam.
The then 25-year-old had planned to be in Portugal but had been unable to fly due to a missed email from the airline, meaning she'd unexpectedly travelled to the French capital at the last minute.
It was during this three day stay to the European centre of love that Andye had a chance encounter that would change her life.
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During a ride on the Parisian metro, Andye briefly looked up and saw a man entering the train carriage she was in.
"He stood there for a minute because it was really crowded and the train continued through different stops," she told The Mirror.
"Then he sat down opposite me. I did notice him when he got on, but I only paid proper attention when he sat across from me."
For about 15 minutes Andye and this stranger engaged in a furtive dance of looking at one another, catching each other's eye, and then quickly looking away.
"It just kept going and going," she explained. "I think it was his energy. It felt so calming to me. I hadn't experienced that before. I felt so at peace. Then I noticed his arms were very muscular."
Andye glanced back at the stranger and noticed that his lips were moving, prompting her to remove her headphones and ask what he had said.
She recalled: "He repeated himself and said 'you can put the backpack on the seat next to you.' It was on my lap.
"He wanted to start a conversation with me, but the New Yorker in me looked at him, I was like, 'It's okay. Is it bothering you? Why are you bothering about my backpack?'
"He proceeded to ask me if I was a student due to the backpack as we were passing a university.
"Then he asked me what stop I was getting off. He asked if he could get off with me. I thought it was strange, but I think his energy put me at ease, so I responded 'yes you can'."
For the next 15 minutes the pair got to know each other, the man explaining that he was called Steven and was originally from the Central African Republic, before switching trains.
"Then he asked if he could take my backpack and carry it," Andye explained.
"I said 'no'. In my head I was wondering if he was trying to pickpocket me. I was very vigilant. He insisted and because I felt at ease. I eventually gave him the backpack and he didn't run away."
After continuing to chat for a while and discovering that they were studying the same subject, Andye agreed to give Steven her number.
They parted ways after exchanging a brief hug. Steven texted Andye four hours later and after much wrangling and negotiating around her tight schedule, they met up the day before she was due to leave Paris.
Their date would prove to be such a roaring success that Steven ended up walking home having missed the last bus back to his place.
When Andye returned to the US the pair knew each other well enough to know that they wanted to try a long distance relationship.
Six years on the pair - who got married three years to the day after they met - live together in Florida, where Steven is learning to speak English.
"Now the relationship is great," Andye said. "We get to spend a lot of time together. We bought a house together. We are married.
"I asked him on the first date if he chatted people up on the metro and then I asked him again over text. He said he never pays attention to other people usually.
"Six years later I'm still shocked. If I had followed my travel plan for that month I would not have been in Paris that day. Sometimes I look at my husband and think 'oh my god I'm married to a stranger I met on a train.'"
