Karima and Timothy Lum, 64, met at work before being set up on a blind date. They live in Tucson, Arizona, with one of their grandchildren and nine pets
In 1993, Karima Wicks was working for a tech company in Tucson, Arizona. “Tim caught my eye,” she remembers. “He had this long ponytail, shorts and Converse sneakers. I remember thinking he had a very west coast look.” Timothy had also noticed her style, which was “totally different”, he says. “She was so dazzling and always dressed up. There wasn’t anything romantic there, though, because we were both married.” They became close colleagues, but lost contact when Timothy left the company later that year.
Two years later, Karima’s marriage ended, although she and her former partner continued to co-parent their daughter. “I went through a confused period where my career felt ungrounded, I was trying to care for my daughter with my ex and I’d come out of two relationships,” she says. She went to see a traditional South American healer, known as a curandera, for guidance. “As part of the ritual, I wrote down everything I wanted in a partner, to gain clarity.”
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