Talk About Beating the Odds

In the early 1990s, former child star Danny Bonaduce, drug-addicted and broke, went on a blind date. At the end of the evening, he wanted to have sex with his date, but she informed him that she was saving herself for marriage. So, being resourceful, he pulled out the Yellow Pages, hired a minister, and married her on the spot. The same day they met. Just so he could sleep with her.

And of course, eleven years later, they're still happily married with two kids.

I now firmly believe there is no such thing as "doomed to fail".