It's the oldest story in the world. Boy meets girl. Or man meets woman. Except that Montreal native Allan Wills wasn't meeting any women.
This was in the fall of 2006. He had moved to London to work. He was lonely, and turning 30.
Lost and lonely in central London, he started a blog, entitled Are YouMyWife.com. A married woman had told him all he needed to do was advertise his availability to the world as a well-adjusted ordinary guy, and women would come crawling out of the cyber-woodwork.
Which they did. Six thousand of them.
Wills quit his job in marketing with Jameson Whiskey and blew his bank account, going on 39 dates in 13 countries.
And now the whole adventure has all come to a happy end.
Late last month, the handsome Wills popped the question to a 29-year-old woman from central London named Claire Marjoram on Montreal's Mount Royal.
After returning last Saturday to England, they were back at their jobs yesterday in London.
No wedding date has been set. Marjoram has started a new job in commercial property development, while Wills works as a product manager for an Internet firm.
Marjoram first learned about Wills while reading an article while she was waiting for the subway in London in October 2006. She responded to his ad, but didn't get to see him until January 2007, just as Wills was boarding a plane for Australia. By then, Wills had appeared on numerous talk shows and was the most famous bachelor in the world.
But one thing led to another through e-mail correspondence with Marjoram and soon she arranged to meet him at a resort on the Gulf of Thailand. They've lived together in London for the past year.
"We purposely spoke to no media during that time," said Wills, who rejected offers to turn his wife search into a reality-TV show in England.
"It was important. I said to Cece [Claire]: 'Look, this is real. This might not work out between us. We have to see.' "
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