You never really know if your dreams will come true, but if this love story shows us anything, it’s that if it’s meant to be, the things you want most will find a way into your life in the most unexpected and amazing way.
Eliza and Ben Curby’s love story seems to be straight out of a movie — meeting at a cafe and falling in love quickly, when Eliza found out she was pregnant, everything seemed to be going just perfect.
But soon after she gave birth to her beautiful baby, things took an unexpected turn. Can Eliza and Ben deal with the surprises that life threw at them?
Read on to find out.
Eliza Curby’s Life-Long Dream
Eliza Curby was born and raised down under, in Sydney, Australia. She had always dreamt of having some kiddos of her own one day. And the older she got, the more and more excited at the idea she became.
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And even though she always imagined she would have a big family, she had no idea that it would happen the way that it did. But long before she achieved her life-long dream of becoming a loving mother, Eliza was hard at work trying to build the perfect life for herself.
Working at a Café
In the early ‘00s, Eliza didn't know what she wanted to do in life but just like other teens, she enrolled in college. From 2002, she attended the independent school of Brigidine College St. Ives, but once 2007 came around she felt like it was time for a change.
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Once she reached her mid-20s, she found herself working at a local café, grinding the days away with her work friends. Little did she know, that this café would unknowingly turn out to be one of the most important and life changing places of her life.
Boy Meets Girl
“Rushing around the busy cafe where I worked, I noticed our regular, Ben, the second he walked in,” Eliza Curby told That’s Life! Magazine. Before she knew it, the two would fall in love, as if they were straight out of a romantic “Boy Meets Girl” type of movie.
Girl works at café. Boy walks into café to order coffee. Boy continues to come in to order coffee. Boy and girl slowly fall for each other in secrecy.
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Or at least, they thought it was a secret.
Those Electric Blue Eyes
“Although I kept my crush to myself at first, my workmates soon caught on. ‘Here comes your husband,’ they’d joke,” Eliza revealed. But in all honesty, this definitely seemed like more than just a crush. It literally was love at first sight, and anytime that Eliza got to make eye-contact with his beautiful blue eyes, her heart would melt. And you know what they say, right? Eyes are the windows to the soul.
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“Taking his order, I found myself lost in his electric blue eyes,” she further revealed. But Eliza was in a place of business, so how would she be able to cross over a professional relationship to a romantic one?
A Chance to Change the Dynamic
It turns out that Eliza and her favorite regular, Ben, started to become more and more friendly as time went on. The more that they got to know each other, the more they started to trust each other – meaning that this could eventually lead to something beyond the four walls of the busy coffee shop.
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And pretty soon, the young puppy love barista would get a unique opportunity that would change the whole dynamic between the two of them, and a chance to take things to the next level.
A Wintertime Deal
It was clear to everyone at work that Eliza was head over heels for this man with beautiful blue eyes. But the two had never really spent more than 10-15 minutes talking with each other since they only interacted while she was at her place of work.
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But once wintertime came around, Ben would give Eliza a surprising offer that she just couldn’t refuse. One that would give her a chance to show Ben just how much she cared, and how much he could truly trust her.