Chance Encounters

" We started flirting in Mongolia. We kissed in Siberia, somewhere on the train."

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Frenchwoman Marie-Claire Martineau and American traveler Elaine Comerford were thrown together by fate on board the Trans-Siberian Railway in the summer of 1991. Here's how that serendipitous railway journey turned into a decades-spanning romance.


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