Grieving Man Meets Future Wife on the Worst Flight of His Life

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Anesu Masube was grieving the loss of his mother and trying to get home to his family three international flights away in Zimbabwe

On his first packed fight from Washington, D.C. to London he was seated next to a solo female passenger

Over the course of the flight, the complete strangers began to bond over the unexpected

Desperate to reunite with his grieving family 7,000 miles away, Anesu Masube booked a flight from Washington D.C. to Zimbabwe two days before Christmas in 2017.

Already mourning the loss of his mother , he was prepared for what he thought would be the worst flight of his life .

The only available route took him from D.C. to London, London to Johannesburg, then Johannesburg to Harare, Zimbabwe. “And because of the last-minute nature… I got a middle se