Do you think true love is blind? Apparently, yes. A Dutch woman named Kelly Jacobs has decided to get married to a man who is currently serving a prison sentence in Oregon, US.
The prisoner named James Dental is serving his 20-year term and will not be a free man till 2032. However, that did not stop Jacobs from deciding on him to be her husband. Also, she has never Dental in person.?
According to The New York Post, this bizarre love story started almost two years ago when Jacobs, who used to work as an intern at a prison joined inmate correspondence service Writeaprisoner.com to know how it felt to be an inmate.?
Through emails, letters and calls, she grew closer to Dental.?
Their casual conversations soon transformed into a proper relationship.?Jacobs confessed that she initially tried to deny her feelings for Dental because she did not want her relationship to go that way.
However, soon after, Dental proposed to her for marriage during a video call, and she said yes. Now, the couple plans to get married in October this year.?
Jacobs added that Dental used a prison made ring to propose to her but later asked one of his friends in the ¡®free world¡¯ to order a ring at a jeweller. The couple will be getting married at a function inside the prison in October.
Initially, when Jacobs' parents found out, they were not impressed. No surprises there. However, once they spoke to Dental on the phone, they gave the couple the green signal.?
Now, even after getting married, the couple will have to spend more than ten years away from each other before Dental walks out of prison in 2032.?He is serving 20 years at the Snake River Correctional Institution for assault and unlawful use of a firearm, an incident from 2012 in which he shot four men.
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