'Our love was a fairy tale' Mark Pilgrim fiancée tells mourners
In an emotional eulogy, the late Mark Pilgrim's fiancée Adrienne Watkins spoke of the love the couple shared and how brilliant a partner and father he was.
Friends and famIly paid tribute to radio legend Mark Pilgrim at a memorial service in Johannesburg on Friday morning.
The 53-year-old died on Sunday after battling stage four lung cancer.
Pilgrim spent over 25 years entertaining millions of listeners and viewers across the country.
In an emotional euology to Pligrim, Watkins stated that she would give up now for one last kiss and one last dance.
"To my beautiful Mark, this is not goodbye, just farewell. The last three years have been the most incredible of my existence. From our very first date, you took my breath away. You whirl winded yourself into my life and it felt like something out of a famous movie scene. From the very beginning I knew that this was the love I had been waiting for.
“You are what fairy tales are made off and so our journey had just begun."
Watkins further looked back on the balance they had throughout their relationship with Mark.
"Growing in love with you, I quickly learned what a significant and remarkable human you were and that you were my home Beyond your outstanding career and professional accomplishments and the legend you are to SA, to me you are an old school gentleman, even in the last week you ordered me flowers.
“A kind and selfless father, and an ambitious businessman with extraordinary drive and determination, so incredibly strong and rooted yet so exceptionally compassionate and kind. A balance that few people are able to achieve in their lifetime and yet this was so easy for you, my love."
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