I named my daughter after my teenage love and she brought us back together

Carla Poulson came round after another epileptic fit and looked up into her mother’s face.

Carla & Lee in the 80s

“I want Lee!” she sobbed. Her mum was distraught. Carla was 15 and had been in love until her parents moved to Marbella, Spain, and took her and her younger brother with them.
Carla and Lee had been devoted to each other, Lee had always been there for Carla during her regular fits, calmed her when she came round. But now she’d lost him forever.


Carla & Lee

 Carla came back to England after a few years. Lee was long gone and she met and married her husband. They went on to have three children together but Carla couldn’t stop thinking about Lee. If their song, Starship’s Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now, came on the radio she would burst into tears. Her husband wasn’t supportive at all and finally he ran off with a younger woman.
She was left depressed and low, would look at the happy photos of her and Lee together from years before. She met another bloke but he didn’t measure up to Lee either and it fizzled out. But a few months later she realised she was pregnant. It gave her the boot she needed to sort herself out and when her gorgeous baby girl was born she named her Lily – Lee’s little brother had always called him `Lee Lee’ and Carla thought it would be the only way he’d ever be in her life again.
Two months later she had a message on a social networking site. It was Lee, he’d found her! He’d been married too, but that had ended as his wife had got so fed up of him always talking about Carla. She confessed that she’d named her daughter after him and the couple arranged to meet.


Carla, Lee & Lilly

 Carla had never been so nervous in her life but as soon as she saw Lee he was just the same. Now the couple have moved in together and Lee is raising Lily as his own.
Carla, who’s 38, said: “I thought I’d lost Lee forever. But after 20 years I think my little girl brought us back together and now nothing really is going to stop us now.”