For our CNN Travel roundup this Thanksgiving weekend, we’re bringing you a potluck of stories about love, family and friendship from around the world. Hold onto your dinner napkins, as there may be some tears in store.

A movie-worthy romance

Englishwoman Charlotte Phillips knows a thing or two about plot twists as an editor for movie trailers, including the 2006 rom-com “The Holiday.”

What she never expected was that she’d be a main character in a real-life love story that would begin thousands of miles from home in a hospital in India.

In 2009, Charlotte was visiting her mom when, with a matchmaking twinkle in her mother’s eye, she was introduced to a young American patient named Amy B. Scher.

Amy had never considered a relationship with a woman before, but she felt instantly conne

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