TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY JASMINA MIRONSKI AND RACHEL O'BRIEN
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY JASMINA MIRONSKI AND RACHEL O'BRIEN Noora Arkavazi (R) and her step-daughter decorate a Christmas tree in their home in Kumanovo on December 21, 2016. The scene was hardly conducive to romance: she was a sick Iraqi in a wave of refugees trying to enter Serbia, while he belonged to the stern Macedonian police force keeping guard. But Noora Arkavazi, a Kurdish Muslim, and Orthodox Christian Bobi Dodevski quickly fell in love after they met at the muddy border in early March -- and celebrated their wedding four months later. / AFP PHOTO / Robert ATANASOVSKI