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Twelve-year-old Chris Prestridge knew the minute he laid eyes on Lori that he was going to marry her. Unfortunately for him, it took Lori 12 more years to come to the same conclusion.

Chris’ first impression of Lori was that she was an “angel on earth.”

“Sounds crazy, but I really felt love at first sight,” he says.

Lori’s first impression of Chris wasn’t so glamorous. “I didn’t like him,” she recalls, laughing.

But they soon became friends anyway, and then best friends. Even though they didn’t attend the same schools, they always stayed close. Chris made his intentions known to Lori — and to everyone else, including her parents (who loved him by the way): He was going to marry her someday.

“I told Lori many times to ‘let me know’ when she was ready. She always laughed it off but I knew one day she would come around,” he says.

They both dated other people, and Lori even had a serious relationship in college.

To her, Chris was just Chris. “And I did love him,” she says. “I just wasn’t in love with him, you know?”

When Lori was 24, she and a friend drove to Garland from Denton to go to a concert with Chris. When her friend saw how Lori and Chris interacted, she told Lori, “You know, if I had someone who loved me like that, I would definitely take a second look.”

That was when the light bulb came on, Lori explains. “I didn’t want to think about him like that, but then I realized I did have feelings for him.”

After talking it over with her mom, who told her if she broke Chris’ heart, she’d never forgive her, Lori mulled it over, and then finally made the call.

“I’m ready,” she told him.

It took him a little while to believe her, of course, but soon they were dating and then married in September 1993.

“He’s just a great guy,” Lori gushes. “I respect him more than anyone else, and I think he respects me more than anyone else.”

Two decades and two kids later, they’re still living happily ever after.

“We are still the best of friends. Our love has never wavered through thick and thin. Our connection is soul deep,” Chris says.

“I still feel like that lovesick boy when I see her across a crowded room or look into her eyes. I feel like the luckiest man in the world every day.”