The True Love Story That Inspired “Titanic” Will Leave You in Tears

Meeting Samuel

After many years of working, a man named Samuel Willis had been living in the city when he picked up a dress for his mother. He was immediately struck by the woman sewing the lace in the back of the shop, though he didn’t know her name yet. He volunteered to pick up anything his mother or father needed in town, just to walk by the store window. Eventually, he got up the nerve to say hello to the beautiful girl in the back of the shop…

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