Their first real date lasted only 20 minutes. It ended because darkness was falling, when unimaginable new threats and nightmares could emerge on the streets of Baghdad. The American soldier and the Iraqi woman were fighting all the odds. They were in love and wanted to marry. From 2004 to 2006, the two had carried on a friendship followed by a yearlong courtship conducted over the phone. Then one day after rehearsing in Arabic with an Iraqi friend, he proposed to her, and she accepted.

In the face of adversity and danger sometimes love does win. In spite of most of the news we read and watch from Iraq, every once in a while there is a happy ending. This is one of the rare times the UN has done any good in the world, helping this young lady make it to America to get married with her 'Caveman.'

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