Sometimes when Lyndasia Breville was watching television with her boyfriend Leroy Samuel he would disappear. But she always knew where to find him.

“I would catch him standing in the mirror in the bathroom checking himself out, flossing his teeth or inspecting his skin for new pimples,” she said, “He took good care of himself.”

The couple met through mutual friends when they were 17 but went to different schools, so it was three years before they were ‘official’. “I made it pretty hard for him,” recalled Lyndasia. “But he was a gorgeous guy. It was his charm that got me in the end.”

Leroy was also honest and vibrant, said Lyndasia, which also helped her fall for him. “He would always motivate me to get up, do things, go out to eat, not just lie in bed. He made sure everyone was okay.”

Leroy worked in construction but often talked about owning his own business and settling down with a family. Lyndasia is now pregnant with their first child.