We re proof that The One really does exist
They fell in love as students, but it took marriages to other people and some 20 years before this couple finally reunited again
Joanna and Keeril met at Oberlin College in Ohio
Credit: Tony Luong
Joanna’s story
Joanna, 49, is a journalist, novelist and the author of the memoir My Salinger Year, which was recently turned into a film starring Sigourney Weaver. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with Keeril and children Coleman, 16, Pearl, 12, and Izzy, five.
I arrived at Oberlin College in Ohio in August 1990. I’d only been there a few hours when I walked out of my dormitory and spotted Keeril in the corridor, and instantly I was drawn to him. He stood out to me because he looked very normal, like the boys in my high school in New York. Ironically, I’d come to this arty, politically progressive college to get away from my middle-class, conventional life.