I Taped a Stranger’s Sketch to My Fridge as a Joke. 8 Months Later, He Bought Me Coffee.
I dropped my phone in the middle of a coffee shop.
The man in front of me turned around, and I just stared. Grey at the temples. Short beard. Kind eyes. And a small scar on his chin.
I knew that face. It had been taped to my refrigerator for eight months, ever since my friends and I ordered soulmate sketches from Tina Aldea as a joke on girls’ night.
It started as a joke
After my divorce, I spent two years on dating apps. Hundreds of matches, a few awful dinners, and I honestly believed that part of my life was over.
Then my friend Rachel said, “We’re all doing this.” You answer a few quick questions, including your birth date, and Tina hand-draws the person she sees for you, with a short reading.
Mine arrived a few days later. The reading said I’d meet him somewhere I went every day, when I “stopped looking so hard.” I laughed, taped it to the fridge, and deleted my dating apps a month later.
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Eight months later
I had started stopping at a little coffee shop before work every morning. One Tuesday I was running late, and there he was, in line in front of me. The card reader broke. He paid for both our coffees.
His name is Tom. He’s a widower, and he had been coming to that same coffee shop every day for three years, just forty minutes after me.
Maybe it’s a gift. Maybe it’s coincidence. Maybe that little drawing just made me look up and start living again. Either way, it gave me hope when I had none left, and it cost less than one bad first date.