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Finding my happily ever after in an arranged marriage

When Chef Ali Mandhry finally said “I do” to his bride in September 2014, many blogs mistakenly reported that the two had been dating for a while. The truth was that before their nuptials, Chef Ali and his wife, Khadija Abdalla, were strangers to each other. 

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