Thembalami residents say I do
LOMBARDY EAST- Groom Edward Abrams and bride Heather Kinsman may have not been in the flush of youth when walking down the aisle on 9 May, but their faces were flushed with happiness.
The couple is the second set of residents of Rand Aid’s Thembalami Care Centre to tie the knot.
Beautifully dressed in black and white, Abrams and Kinsman walked down the aisle at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Bedfordview, before enjoying a reception for family, friends and senior staff from Tembalami at the Tarentaal Village Hall.
While Abrams has been a Thembalami resident for over 10 years, Kinsman only moved to the centre in December last year.
Abrams said, “I was at breakfast one morning when she walked in, and I knew then that I was going to marry her.”
Kinsman quipped, “I said he was nuts when he asked me to marry him within a week of meeting him. I was not thinking of getting married again, but he persevered and we went from acquaintances to friends and soon we started loving each other.”
The couple enjoys walks, movies and spending time with loved ones. Collectively, they have seven children and seven grandchildren. All Abrams needs now to make his life complete, he said, is an automatic tuk-tuk so that he and his new bride can enjoy little jaunts together.
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