Podbit · We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson
Before Instagram, before DMs, a footballer saw Missé in a magazine and tracked her down on Facebook with a single opening line: 'I'm going to end up marrying you.' He then referenced it in his wedding speech — because he did.
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Anders Lindegaard's pursuit of Missé was, even by Missé's own romantic standards, unusually direct. He saw her photograph in a Danish men's magazine, tracked down a mutual friend in Copenhagen, and then bypassed that friend entirely to send her a Facebook message declaring his matrimonial intentions before they had ever spoken. [1] — Missé Beqiri "Before Instagram, before DMs, a footballer saw Missé in a magazine and tracked her down on Facebook with a single opening line: 'I'm going …" 43:35 Missé, sitting alone in her Milan apartment, was simultaneously charmed and taken aback. She checked his profile — blond, tall, objectively attractive — and a daily phone friendship developed across borders. When he flew to Copenhagen to take her to dinner, that was effectively the end of her Italian chapter. Manchester beckoned, and when Lindegaard gently but firmly suggested that the casting world she was navigating was not a safe environment for her — having listened to her accounts of the industry's underbelly every evening — she found herself choosing love and security over the career grind.
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