For Susan Tanaka, her story with her husband is like a roller coaster, as the two spent eight years dating and breaking up.
The 49-year-old Filipino on several occasions almost gave up any hope of marrying him.
Had Makoto, 48, a company executive, not decided to marry her, she would have been a nurse in her home country.
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