My love is like a...... popsicle

He couldn't get into Canada legally to visit her because he had been convicted in 1984 of robbing a Pizza Hut in Arkansas. She couldn't afford to travel to the United States because she is a single mother of limited financial means.

So Gonsoulin tried to sneak across the Canadian border from North Dakota into Winnipeg in late February. But having spent his entire life in warm climates, he wasn't prepared for a Canadian winter. He suffered severe frostbite and hypothermia after four days in the outdoors trying to trek about seven kilometres, and was babbling incoherently when an RCMP officer found him.

Gonsoulin's eight fingers and several toes had to be amputated earlier this week.