In 2008, Dr Funmilayo and Dr Dami were students at the College of Medicine in Lagos. Although they would eventually get married in 2014, they never knew this. They both attended the same campus fellowship and had been introduced by a mutual friend a few years earlier, but they were not exactly on speaking terms. Although during several evening walks, Dr Dami had noticed her as she took a different route. The third time he saw her, he couldn’t resist the urge to speak with her. That day, Dr Funmilayo had not planned to go for a walk that evening, but something nudged her. That was the beginning of their love journey. “We started talking seriously during one of those night walks, and we’ve been taking plenty of walks ever since,” Dami said. Funmilayo grew up as an only child with her own ...