She asked a stranger to accompany her on a ghost tour. Then they fell in love

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Amelia Showalter was debating whether asking a stranger to join her on a ghost tour was a mad idea. She was sitting in a crowded bar in Edinburgh’s Old Town, the last dregs of a glass of scotch in front of her. Also in front of her: Lucas Demaria. An Argentinian DJ she’d just met. He was a fellow tourist and a self-confessed “big nerd”. And he was someone Amelia was “very much liking talking with”. Amelia swallowed the last of her drink and in turn swallowed her reservations.

“When we met, I started making a little spreadsheet of how certain I felt that he was the love of my life,” Amelia says. “I wasn’t being overly romantic — the first entry was 10 per cent, a 10 per cent chance Lucas was the love of my life. Which is actually really high if you think about it, just because what are the odds that any person is the love of your life?” As she spent more and more time WhatsApping Lucas, Amelia added more data to the spreadsheet. “It went up to 20 per cent.

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