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Press-ups for life: They fell in love through sport

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Kenya is vibrating with lonely hearts. If you brave the night chill alone with mosquitos laughing in your ears, endure annoying questions from pesky aunties, pray for Godly intervention and hang around social media waiting for a miracle to happen, maybe, the answer lies in sport.

Apart from sweating off that gut, and trimming that ballooning behind, who knows? The lover of your life could pant your way. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, The Nairobian profiles couples who played their way into marriage.    

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