How Beth Mugo and her husband Nicholas met

Amb Nicholas Mugo, 85, died at a Nairobi hospital on Thursday morning after a long illness [Courtesy]

She was 19, he was 22. “He just told me that he loved me and that I was the only girl that he had ever loved. That was enough for me,” Beth Mugo said in a past interview.

Few can tell the tale of a marriage that has stood the test of time, not just figuratively, but literally.