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I met Adrian when I was 18 and we married when I was 23.

I fell in love with Adrian because he made me laugh, he was smart and he looked good in footy shorts.

However, what I loved most was that right from the beginning there was no pretence between us. Adrian has always been “what you see is what you get”, and the flipside of this is that he takes everyone at face value. I never had to second-guess who he wanted me to be; I always felt he loved me for who I was.