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<p>It started with a cynical tweet, and evolved into a heartwarming thread lovely enough to melt the comedian&#39;s heart.</p><p>Comedian <a href="https://twitter.com/edgykristina">Kristina Hart</a> posted a tweet asking for married people to share how they met their spouses, because she has yet to meet hers. People opened up with meet-cute stories and the cuteness was overwhelming, and went in exciting directions: there are ways to meet people that aren&#39;t simply the internet or church!</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/edgykristina/status/1418580032411344904" height="184" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-07-29-at-102940-am-BMu3AC.jpg" width="778" /></div><div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/edgykristina/status/1418580032411344904">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>She knew it was absolute gold and even tagged BuzzFeed. She laughed, she cried, she went...</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/edgykristina" height="328" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-07-29-at-103309-am-EKkhY5.jpg" width="764" /></div><div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/edgykristina">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>Here are the best ones that can rival any romance novel.</p><p>1.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/Kleemomof3/status/1418975024120320012" height="356" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-07-29-at-103809-am-EcCppu.jpg" width="784" /></div><div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/Kleemomof3/status/1418975024120320012">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/Kleemomof3/status/1419099704722350082" height="362" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-07-29-at-103847-am-luOwAS.jpg" width="786" /></div><div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/Kleemomof3/status/1419099704722350082">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>2.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">My husband and I met in 1999 at the (now long defunct) Borders Bookstore at the intersection of Diversey, Clark &amp; Broadway in Chicago. Fittingly, we met in front of the “New Releases” section. We went back to where we met at Borders to take pictures on our wedding day in 2002. ❤️ <a href="https://t.co/MxnGc8iv0X">pic.twitter.com/MxnGc8iv0X</a></p>&mdash; Sonya Olds Som (she/her/hers) (@SonyaOldsSom) <a href="https://twitter.com/SonyaOldsSom/status/1418943310475976711?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>3.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/FarnoshMaz/status/1418818317054365698" height="362" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-07-29-at-104041-am-6fhN9T.jpg" width="782" /></div><div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/FarnoshMaz/status/1418818317054365698">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>4.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We went to the same high school but did not become friends and start dating until college. When we were planning our wedding we found this gem so we apparently met when we were 5 or 6 and were on the same soccer team❤️ <a href="https://t.co/u7X3g9It4I">pic.twitter.com/u7X3g9It4I</a></p>&mdash; Jackie Hostetter (@jhostetter11) <a href="https://twitter.com/jhostetter11/status/1418926108746059792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>5.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/KatieTurner2/status/1418659003748569093?s=20" height="334" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-07-29-at-104157-am-QpcQX1.jpg" width="786" /></div><div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/KatieTurner2/status/1418659003748569093?s=20">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>6.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/AndrewBernstei9/status/1420570991273578497" height="314" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-07-29-at-104313-am-YmX0DF.jpg" width="782" /></div><div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/AndrewBernstei9/status/1420570991273578497">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>7.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I was a weapons inspector at a Soviet missile factory, implementing the INF treaty.<br>She was a Soviet translator, assigned to that factory, whose job was to monitor the actions of inspectors like me.<br>The factory made SS-25 mobile ICBMs that targeted American cities.<br>Go figure.</p>&mdash; Scott Ritter (@RealScottRitter) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealScottRitter/status/1419073325834379272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>8.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/madonnajen/status/1418748431523323905" height="352" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-07-29-at-104433-am-WwkFOM.jpg" width="780" /></div><div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/madonnajen/status/1418748431523323905">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>9.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">It’s 1991 and I’m 16, she’s 14, we’re at a New Years youth event. To mix things up some, at dinner they lined up the boys and girls oldest to youngest, then paired them off to eat together. The two of us were the end of the line, ate together, and got married 4 yrs later ❤️❤️ <a href="https://t.co/IR0Sw0ZNbO">pic.twitter.com/IR0Sw0ZNbO</a></p>&mdash; Reuben Huffman (@REHuffman6) <a href="https://twitter.com/REHuffman6/status/1418909180262555656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>10.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/GianiJamie/status/1419093289249218561" height="358" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-07-29-at-104623-am-tQlQZ5.jpg" width="780" /></div><div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/GianiJamie/status/1419093289249218561">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>11.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We met for the first time in a back alley in Toronto. No really. <br>But it was a parking spot greeting &amp; surreptitious set up by our mutual friends, a couple. It was a large group outing to an outdoor NXNW show but he &amp; I ended up talking all night. That was almost 20 years ago. <a href="https://t.co/odcVs0BejS">pic.twitter.com/odcVs0BejS</a></p>&mdash; Jennifer Mustapha PhD (@JHMustapha) <a href="https://twitter.com/JHMustapha/status/1419027718256173062?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>12.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/ajcrusher/status/1418877981062221833" height="320" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-07-29-at-104757-am-C0mzYX.jpg" width="778" /></div><div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/ajcrusher/status/1418877981062221833">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>13.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">At a goth-industrial night club<br><br>Bauhaus was playing and my ex-girlfriend walked in, so I decided to look really involved with the first hot girl I could strike up a conversation with...<br><br>23 years later and I’m not done with that conversation 🤷🏻‍♂️ <a href="https://t.co/LPCPCvyXqt">pic.twitter.com/LPCPCvyXqt</a></p>&mdash; J-Sun (@ThebanMonk) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThebanMonk/status/1418747372339879940?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>14.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/Auntpeso/status/1418972329955237905?s=20" height="356" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-07-29-at-105048-am-Dg8cQR.jpg" width="786" /></div><div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/Auntpeso/status/1418972329955237905?s=20">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>15.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I saved him from a falling TV in the cadet gym. We re-created that romantic moment 10 years later <br>(note: TVs were bigger back in 2004) <a href="https://t.co/62vk5e73nB">pic.twitter.com/62vk5e73nB</a></p>&mdash; Amanda Weinstein (@ProfWeinstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProfWeinstein/status/1419317453289623555?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 25, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>16.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/kncitom/status/1418601461466894337" height="246" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-07-29-at-105249-am-F1PxLw.jpg" width="780" /></div><div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/kncitom/status/1418601461466894337">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>17.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Dairy Queen! I worked there, and his band practiced across the street and would come over for ice cream after practice. We took wedding photos there years later. <a href="https://t.co/JJ21JMFCoF">pic.twitter.com/JJ21JMFCoF</a></p>&mdash; Kerry (@krryhgn) <a href="https://twitter.com/krryhgn/status/1419013027475640322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>18.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/DrNancyGlass1/status/1418750151037001728" height="224" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-07-29-at-112743-am-UqXLx4.jpg" width="788" /></div><div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/DrNancyGlass1/status/1418750151037001728">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>19.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Reddit" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/Suzybarnes/status/1418875459438268417" height="294" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-07-29-at-112942-am-5gfQQj.jpg" width="776" /></div><div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/Suzybarnes/status/1418875459438268417">Reddit</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>20.</p><figure class="image"><div class="image-container"><img alt="" data-attribution="Twitter" data-attribution-url="https://twitter.com/ashtonwhitney/status/1419329362311135232" height="370" src="//cdn.someecards.com/posts/screen-shot-2021-07-29-at-113037-am-wydP46.jpg" width="766" /></div><div class="image-attribution"><a href="https://twitter.com/ashtonwhitney/status/1419329362311135232">Twitter</a></div></figure><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>21.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">We met on an Amazon riverboat cruise. I took my mom as a retirement gift. He was the ship’s steward. We did the long distance thing for 3 years. Then I got his tropically born behind to come to Alaska. This fall we will be married 15 years. <a href="https://t.co/QzpSopQEgp">pic.twitter.com/QzpSopQEgp</a></p>&mdash; Shellpaw (@ShellPaw) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShellPaw/status/1419045857182158848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>22.</p><div class="oembedall-container sec-iframe sec-oembed-iframe"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Night bus from Gilgit to Islamabad, Pakistan 23 years ago: I’d been given the seat assigned to him, which was the magic twist that guaranteed we meet. 3 children and many adventures later, we remain happily together. <a href="https://twitter.com/myireh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@myireh</a></p>&mdash; Dr. Emma Varley (@AnthReproHealth) <a href="https://twitter.com/AnthReproHealth/status/1419084777903304704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

22 people share the unusual and heartwarming ways they met their spouses.

It started with a cynical tweet, and evolved into a heartwarming thread lovely enough to melt the comedian&#39;s heart.Comedian Kristina Hart posted a tweet asking for married people to share how they met their spouses, because she has yet to meet hers. People opened up with meet-cute stories and the cuteness was overwhelming, and went in exciting directions: there are ways to meet people that aren&#39;t simply the internet or church!TwitterShe knew it was absolute gold and even tagged BuzzFeed. She laughed, she cried, she went...TwitterHere are the best ones that can rival any romance novel.1.TwitterTwitter2.My husband and I met in 1999 at the (now long defunct) Borders Bookstore at the intersection of Diversey, Clark &amp; Broadway in Chicago. Fittingly, we met in front of the “New Releases” section. We went back to where we met at Borders to take pictures on our wedding day in 2002. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/MxnGc8iv0X&mdash; Sonya Olds Som (she/her/hers) (@SonyaOldsSom) July 24, 2021 3.Twitter4.We went to the same high school but did not become friends and start dating until college. When we were planning our wedding we found this gem so we apparently met when we were 5 or 6 and were on the same soccer team❤️ pic.twitter.com/u7X3g9It4I&mdash; Jackie Hostetter (@jhostetter11) July 24, 2021 5.Twitter6.Twitter7.I was a weapons inspector at a Soviet missile factory, implementing the INF treaty.She was a Soviet translator, assigned to that factory, whose job was to monitor the actions of inspectors like me.The factory made SS-25 mobile ICBMs that targeted American cities.Go figure.&mdash; Scott Ritter (@RealScottRitter) July 24, 2021 8.Twitter9.It’s 1991 and I’m 16, she’s 14, we’re at a New Years youth event. To mix things up some, at dinner they lined up the boys and girls oldest to youngest, then paired them off to eat together. The two of us were the end of the line, ate together, and got married 4 yrs later ❤️❤️ pic.twitter.com/IR0Sw0ZNbO&mdash; Reuben Huffman (@REHuffman6) July 24, 2021 10.Twitter11.We met for the first time in a back alley in Toronto. No really. But it was a parking spot greeting &amp; surreptitious set up by our mutual friends, a couple. It was a large group outing to an outdoor NXNW show but he &amp; I ended up talking all night. That was almost 20 years ago. pic.twitter.com/odcVs0BejS&mdash; Jennifer Mustapha PhD (@JHMustapha) July 24, 2021 12.Twitter13.At a goth-industrial night clubBauhaus was playing and my ex-girlfriend walked in, so I decided to look really involved with the first hot girl I could strike up a conversation with...23 years later and I’m not done with that conversation 🤷🏻‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/LPCPCvyXqt&mdash; J-Sun (@ThebanMonk) July 24, 2021 14.Twitter15.I saved him from a falling TV in the cadet gym. We re-created that romantic moment 10 years later (note: TVs were bigger back in 2004) pic.twitter.com/62vk5e73nB&mdash; Amanda Weinstein (@ProfWeinstein) July 25, 2021 16.Twitter17.Dairy Queen! I worked there, and his band practiced across the street and would come over for ice cream after practice. We took wedding photos there years later. pic.twitter.com/JJ21JMFCoF&mdash; Kerry (@krryhgn) July 24, 2021 18.Twitter19.Reddit20.Twitter21.We met on an Amazon riverboat cruise. I took my mom as a retirement gift. He was the ship’s steward. We did the long distance thing for 3 years. Then I got his tropically born behind to come to Alaska. This fall we will be married 15 years. pic.twitter.com/QzpSopQEgp&mdash; Shellpaw (@ShellPaw) July 24, 2021 22.Night bus from Gilgit to Islamabad, Pakistan 23 years ago: I’d been given the seat assigned to him, which was the magic twist that guaranteed we meet. 3 children and many adventures later, we remain happily together. @myireh&mdash; Dr. Emma Varley (@AnthReproHealth) July 24, 2021 

It started with a cynical tweet, and evolved into a heartwarming thread lovely enough to melt the comedian&#39;s heart.  Comedian Kristina Hart posted a tweet asking for married people to share how they met their spouses, because she has...