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“He asks me where I live, and I say I live in Dallas, Texas, and I’m like, ‘Where are you from?,” she explains. “He tells me he’s from Vancouver…he’s from Vancouver, Canada, so we’re in two different countries!”
She’s so upset by this, thinking that it will be impossible to ever have a relationship with this person who she was intrigued by and so excited about. She tries to pursue it anyway.
“Of course, the dreamiest, cutest one has to live in a different country from me!” she said. “We match, we have good conversation, he got my number, and we had small talk that I thought was going to die down in like a week or two.”
Luckily, their interactions turned out to be better than she could have ever imagined–making the entire situation all the more bittersweet.
“The conversation’s going better than well, I’m like, oh my gosh, this person could be my soulmate, and it absolutely does not die down after two weeks,” she said. “He asks to have a FaceTime date with me, and I agree, so we have the FaceTime date for, like, thirty-five minutes, and it is so awkward. I’m literally sweating, he’s barely talking, I’m kind of barely talking, and literally, when I hang the phone up, I just am like, okay, not happening.”
Though she thought it went terribly, something must have clicked for him because the next thing she knew, he was flying out to meet her in person.
“I agree to have him fly in and meet me,” she said. “We’re also still trying to figure out how we matched on Hinge because I never set my location up there.”
She decides to be adventurous and step outside of her comfort zone to meet someone from another country that she’s only ever met on FaceTime before. He booked them an Airbnb to stay at together.
“I’m sending the location to my parents and my friends because I’m well aware that, at this point, he could just be a serial killer, and I could be on an ex-Netflix documentary,” she said. “I get to the airport, and he gets off of his flight, and he is ten times dreamier in person, and my heart is fluttering.”
She’s finally excited after meeting him in person that this could go well and that it might actually work out. She’s still nervous, though, and makes some decisions when they’re out eating that puts her in a tricky spot–twice.
“To break the nerves, I drink a little bit when we go to lunch, and we had a dinner date planned that night. So, of course, I was mixing alcohol because I was not being careful, and I end up getting sick on our first date,” she said. “I proceeded to take him to my friend’s wedding as my date the next day, and of course, was so excited…drink too much and got absolutely sick.”
