Ghanaian Gospel Musician, Melody Frimpong, has shared her story of how her husband unhesitantly married her after only three weeks of communicating.
Melody shared this captivating story on Happy FM, during an interview with Pastor Nyansa Boakwa, on the religious programme, Nsem Pii.
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She narrated that she and her family struggled financially and so at about eighteen years she encouraged herself to step out of that situation, and started to pray about it.
“I told myself that no matter what it takes, I will travel abroad but every time I tried, the embassy would bounce me. As time went by, I got to join a band and it happened that we had to go and perform at a show in America for three weeks”, she said.
The determined young musician told herself that when she touches down in the United States(US), it should not take long for her to marry and acquire her papers for a permanent stay.
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She furthered, “coincidentally, there was this woman back in Accra who used to tell me every time we met, that she finds me very beautiful and would link me to her brother but I never took her serious back then”.
Melody narrated that upon reaching the US, the woman gave her(Melody’s) number to her brother, who also would not stop calling. Within that three weeks of performing at the programme, she met the man and he promised to marry her.
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She continued, “this was around when I was 23 or 24years. He said he would marry me and I asked him, how do you meet someone this minute and decide right away that you want to get married?”.
According to Melody, the man, right after the three-week programme ended, did all the legal marriage requirements and that meant she was officially married, and a citizen of the United States.
By: Maureen Dedei Quaye