Sooooooooo Sweeeeeeeet!!!! (2011年2月22日)

What are the chances of that? Couple married two decades discover holiday photo of themselves - taken 14 years before they even met

By Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 5:02 PM on 22nd February 2011A couple who have been married for 20 years were astonished to discover an old holiday photo featuring both of them as children - 14 years before they met.

The black and white snapshot taken on a Butlins holiday in 1965 shows a four-year-old Mandy Knaggs peering into the foreground towards the boy who she would later marry.

Her husband, Ray, who was also four at the time, was the mystery boy who features prominently in the picture, despite it being taken by one of Mandy's parents. 

By an incredible twist of fate, the pair who lived just streets away from each  other in Billingham, Teesside, found themselves on holiday in Filey at the same time - the only time Ray's family ever visited the camp.

Despite being yards apart in the photo, Mandy never actually met young Ray until more than a decade later.

Fate finally threw a grown-up Mandy and Ray together in 1979 - a lot closer to home at a club in Billingham - and, after hitting it off, the couple married in 1985 and went on to have five children.

'For all those years we were only a few streets away as kids, but we went to different schools,' said Mandy, who works at Billchem pharmacy.

'I don't even remember that particular holiday. Mum or dad took the photo, but we are hardly in it.

'You can just see my and my sister Julie's heads and Ray is right at the front of the photo.

'It looks more like his photo than mine! He's not looking at the camera but you can tell it's him.

'He had the most ridiculous boyish hairstyle, all clagged down at the front.'

For years after they married, the childhood photograph from Butlins stayed stored away - its incredible coincidence hidden - until one day when the couple were sharing their old snapshots.

Mandy remembers the moment well, saying: 'God, he was surprised when he saw it. He looked at the picture and said, "That's me! I was four!" 

'He kept saying, "What are the chances of that happening?" Ray believes in spiritual things, but I don't know about fate. But I think it definitely was there.'

The couple's children, Louise, 23, Mark, 20, Jessica, 18, and 16-year-old twins Ashleigh and Liam, all agree it's an amazing story.

The Butlins photo became a talking point again last week as Ray, who works at NETA Training in Stockton, was putting together a photo scrapbook of Mandy's life for her 50th birthday.

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Super super sweet sweet + 超級超級巧合既真人真事!

Mandy + Ray Knaggs 1979年認識，1985年結婚，夫婦兩有5個仔女~

一日Mandy + Ray 睇返大家既童年照片，Ray 突然發現自己出現喺一張由Mandy 父母拍攝既相裡面!

時為1965年 - 即佢地認識之前14年前!!

1965年Mandy + Ray 都係大約4歲左右，雖然當時大家都係住喺同一個area，而且屋企只相隔幾條街，不過大家返唔同既學校，兩家人亦互不相識~

依一年兩家人同一時間去咗family holiday - 仲係同一地點!

就係咁Mandy 既父母拍下咗依張相，當時Mandy 父母正影緊Mandy + Mandy 姐姐，突然一個陌生小男孩出現喺鏡頭前

依個小男孩就係Ray!

14年後Mandy + Ray 相遇，仲結埋婚生小朋友，happily ever after~~~

仲唔係整定? 直情係天作之合!

超級浪漫~~~~~