Love Worth Fighting For: How a Young Lady Finally Found Love After Overcoming Rejection

Love Worth Fighting For: How a Young Lady Finally Found Love After Overcoming Rejection

  • Stephanie Edwards, an albino, faced discrimination and rejection from society because of her unique complexion
  • She had extremely negative and hurtful comments hurled at her all her life because of her appearance
  • Edwards developed a hatred for men until she finally met the love of her life who later became her husband

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Love has no colours or boundaries, and such is the story of a woman who has defied social stigma, rejection and is now living with her husband.

Stephanie Edwards, an albino, has had negative and hurtful comments hurled at her all her life because of her appearance.

She was mistreated, especially by men, which made her develop a dislike for men as she wanted nothing to do with them.

Stephanie Edwards (L), Sean Ellis (R)
Love Worth Fighting For: How a Young Lady Finally Found Love After Overcoming Rejection. Photo credit: Jamaica Gleaner
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Meeting her husband

Edwards developed the mindset that made her believe that no man would ever care for her until the day she met the love of her life, Sean Ellis. The two are not only happily married, but are blissfully in love.

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In an interview with Family and Religion at their home in Bottom Halse Hall, Clarendon in Jamaica, the couple reminisced on the journey to being soulmates.

Love at first sight

Ellis recalled that from the first time he laid eyes on Edwards, he was hooked. From a comfortable friendship, their relationship developed, and in February 2019, he declared his intentions to marry her.

With the positive vibes that she would accept his proposal, he went ahead to officially start their courtship.

Proposing to Edwards

The Jamaica Gleaner reports that at 10:32 am on Friday, February 15, a day after he gave Edwards a Valentine’s Day gift that brought her to tears, he surprised her with a marriage proposal in the customer service section at a bank.

The duo shared their journey in the video below:

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YEN.com.gh previously reported that when Ama Afrakoma Appiah Dwaah first delivered her mobile number to Appiah Gerald in a conversation on Facebook, she had no idea the gesture would end in praise.

The duo had started chatting in their DMs, moving from total strangers to sharing contacts to establishing a friendship. Without a scintilla of coyness, Ama Dawah released her mobile number as though she knew the end from the beginning.

From the first day the pair bonded in their DMs, they would become friends and even proceed with plans to be husband and wife.

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Nathaniel Crabbe (Human-Interest editor) Nathaniel Crabbe is a journalist and editor with a degree in Journalism from the Ghana Institute of Journalism, where he graduated in 2015. He earned his master's from UPSA in December 2023. Before becoming an editor/writer of political/entertainment and human interest stories at Asaase Radio, Crabbe was a news reporter at TV3 Ghana. With experience spanning over ten years, he now works at YEN.com.gh as a human interest editor. You can reach him via nathaniel.crabbe@yen.com.gh.