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Unique marriage in a day

The marriage between Boniface Odero Nyimbi and his beautiful bride, Violet Juliet Jones in 1970 no doubt goes down among the shortest in history.

The two (pictured below) met in the Ugandan capital, Kampala, both total strangers to each other. Reminisces Odero: “I was in the Ugandan capital distributing drugs for an American pharmaceutical company and she was on transit to Lusaka, Zambia to renew her expatriate teaching contract there. Coincidentally, we had booked up at the same hotel.”

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