Everyone has a love story.

I’ve been in love exactly three times, but I only consider one of them my “love story”.

 

A success story, a broken heart story, an unrequited love story.

My love story is about lost connections and missed opportunities.

I was 25 and had just moved to a new city for university. He was in the country for 6 months on a university exchange and we lived in the same hostel.

He was tall, and he was so, so smart – both qualities I am an utter sucker for.

We would have these conversations which were more than enough in the foreplay department for me. Staying up late debating politics, and economies, and environmental issues.

We hung out – a lot. At home, at uni. I was utterly head over heels for him.

And looking back, if I had been more confident, or assertive, then this love story would be a hell of a lot more exciting.

But I was not. I fell in love with a man who left the country (on a date I STILL – 8 years later – note every year) without either of us acting on this base emotion and attraction.

Nothing ever happened, and I am not exaggerating when I say I’m not sure I’ll ever make the same level of cerebral connection with another human being ever again.

To say I mourned his loss was an understatement. But he moved on, and eventually so did I. A few years down the track we met again in Sydney – both of us with our respective partners – for one of the most awkward meetings I’ve ever had. We haven’t talked again since.

 

Love stories keep Hugh Grant working and dozens of billion dollar industries alive.

 

I learned a lot – in particular I learned I am not going to spend years moping over a guy again. There are more fish in the sea, and if one isn’t interested, there are others out there who are.

I learned that I was not Bridget Jones, that Mr Darcy was not going to emerge from some glorious lake and take my hand and whisk me off to Pemberley (and yes, I realise I am mixing up my movies here).

 

But even though the movies aren’t real life, sometimes, two people will have an epic love story.

The kind of story that makes you believe in love all over again.

And that’s what Hap and Mandy Cameron have. It’s a love story than spans the globe. It includes love, passion,  heartbreak, and an epic battle against bureaucracy.

 

Hap and Mandy have a love story that rides the kinds of ups and downs that Jane Austen was famous for.

And it’s 100% true – and they caught the whole thing on film.

Which is where I come in. I’ve been working with director Susan Parker to bring this story – the kind of story that will make you believe in love again – to Kickstarter.

Parker has her own story of heartbreak – the kind of story that is much more common than the epic romance of the film’s subjects – and firmly believes that the themes of the story are the kind  everyone can identify with.

It’s a love story that needs a little love.

And it’s funding now on Kickstarter. Check it out here.

[Update – 8/12/14 – 296 backers pledged $26,295 to help bring this project to life. Loving in Limbo funded fully, and production is well underway – Congratulations Susan!]