In the times of social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people are thinking that the coronavirus is separating people. However, a case Columbia totally contradicts this notion. Maria Cecilia Osorio nor Alfonso Ardila would have ever imagined that they'd find each in the middle of a pandemic and fall in love.
The two fell in love and got married within a month of the lockdown, with people at the shelter as guests. The wedding was traditional - a white dress for the bride, a suit for the groom, a large entourage of around 240 people... and face masks.
As per the Reuters report, Osorio, 39, does missionary work and found herself without money to pay rent when the quarantine began in March. She accepted a spot at a shelter in Manizales, in Colombia coffee region.
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Ardila, 72, works in construction and, like many informal laborers in the Andean country, saw his work dry up. Unable to pay rent and suffering the after-effects of a head injury he got at work, he too sought refuge at the shelter.
“I came to this place where nobody looked at me or greeted me but here I found someone who loved me and worried about me,” he told Reuters, adding that hourly seizures caused by his injury had stopped since he met Osorio.