In 1965 a swedish man met a women while vacationing in East Berlin. They fell in love and after three months he proposed. Only she was unable to leave the country. He loved her so much he spent a year learning how to fly a plane so he could smuggle her out of the country and marry her.

The story is Hans Christian Cars and Isolde. A great reminder that men who truly want you, will show you.

A full account of it is posted here. https://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/599039-escape-eastern-germany-c150-1960-s.html#post9890771

Really puts men who think Netflix and chill is sufficient to shame.