She spent 40 years looking for stranger who said 'I love you'

16 January,2009 06:42 AM IST |   |  Agencies

Regina Bradley (72) has spent her entire adult life and thousands of pounds searching for a man she fell in love with 40 years ago.


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Regina Bradley (72) has spent her entire adult life and thousands of pounds searching for a man she fell in love with 40 years ago. She has advertised in newspapers and journeyed across the country in a bid to find the mystery admirer she encountered at Gatwick airport in 1968.


She said the man was with a group of friends waiting for a plane. "He looked at me as if he'd seen a vision and mouthed 'I love you'. I was shocked." She agreed to meet him in Picadilly Circus later that night, but was unable to make it. She has been looking for him ever since.

Though Regina went on to marry and have two children she is now divorced. She said, "Some people have ridiculed me for this and said it's impossible they say I'll never find him...
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I believe God will bring me a miracle. "He was the first to say he loved me and it has stayed with me. I'm just praying he will get in touch," said the former teacher who is now living in North Wales.
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