Race Across the World’s Mark shares extraordinary connection with Greek stranger

Race Across the World's Mark finds unexpected connection with driverSource: BBC

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00:00My mom died three years ago. Yeah, it's really really sad. It's my wife died three years ago. Really? Yeah

00:07What was her name? Julia? Julia. And your mom's? Evelyn. Evelyn. Yeah, my mom had

00:15brain marrow cancer and similar to Julia's

00:20Really? Yeah, Julia had myelofibrosis. Oh gosh, this is really similar

00:29Julia had quite a rare condition. It's called myelofibrosis

00:33Basically stops the production of red blood cells. So when she was told the diagnosis, it was devastating

00:39Because it's terminal. There's no cure for it

00:44Do you miss your mom? Every single second. Yeah

00:50I do miss Julia. I miss Julia a lot. How long you've been together?

00:55Uh, we met in 1983

00:58Oh boy

00:59Yeah, oh boy, yes

01:01Julia was definitely out of my league. Absolutely

01:06We met when I was at Huddersfield Polytechnic

01:09I just saw this character in a Burberry Mac and a beret

01:14Bobbing past the window

01:16And it was love at first sight

01:17And when I met her, I knew she was my partner for life

01:22And what did your mom do?

01:24She was an architect

01:27Guess what's I am?

01:28Yeah

01:29Jeremy

01:29Well, she's down

01:30I couldn't leave her