Awww, this brings a tear to my eye :'(

A Canadian man is writing to 3,700 Belgian women called Sabine in a bid to find a sweetheart.

Marc Lachance met a Belgian woman called Sabine on a bus trip to Havana while he was on holiday in Cuba.

He told De Morgen: "We liked each other and spent the day together. But I was too shy to ask her address or telephone number."

Back in Canada, he realised Sabine could be the woman of his life and began his efforts to track her down.

"All I know is she speaks French and she was travelling with a friend named Klara," said Mr Lachance.

"Finally, I looked up in the phonebook the addresses of all women named Sabine. There are 3,700 of them. I was shocked it's such a popular name."

Mr Lachance has so far written to all the women named Sabine in Brussels. Soon he will send letters to the Sabines in Namur, then the rest of the country.

"It is costing me a lot of money," he admitted. "And what if her name is not in the phonebook - I dare not think of that."

Source: Ananova