South Carolina’s scandalized ex-governor, Mark Sanford, is engaged to his “soul mate” at the root of his false 2009 cover story of hiking the Appalachian Trail while he secretly met with her in Argentina.

Various news outlets reported the engagement to Maria Belen Chapur after the story broke on her native country’s largest newspaper website, clarin.com.

The Argentine headline: El gobernador infiel de Carolina del Sur se casa con su amante argentina [Unfaithful South Carolina to marry his Argentine lover]