When the late former First Lady and wife to Ghana's oldest-living former President, , joined her ancestors in October 2023, many details of her life and the totality of the woman she was, beyond the public appearances, were told.

In the tributes that people penned down for her, one of the stories that captivated many was a reminder of how the late Theresa Aba Kufuor and her husband first met.

That encounter in the United Kingdom (which John Kufuor described in his own tribute as 'a clearly fore-ordained introduction') became the birthing of a love story that spanned many decades.

Detailed under her biography, the story was told of how, as a young nurse-trainee in Edinburgh, in the United Kingdom, Theresa decided to attend a dance in London, organized for Ghanaians studying in that country.