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title: "MARRIAGE - From Shared Rides to Shared Vows"
description: "Perfect timing, perfect place, perfect person: A chance encounter on a ride completely rewrote HoangYell's dating life!"
pubDate: "2024-12-06"
lang: "en"
slug: "marriage"
url: "https://hoangyell.com/marriage/"
author: "HoangYell"
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categories: ["Life"]
tags: ["marriage", "life"]
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## 📘 One-Sided Love Saga
Whoa, time flies! 20 years have zipped by.
20 years of what, you ask? Oh no, not 20 years of us being in love 😄. Back then, my wife was only 4 years old!
I mean, it’s been 20 years since I first thought I knew what love (unrequited, of course) was, back in elementary school.
Yeah, you read that right. Elementary school!
High school rolled around, and my one-sided love affairs got a little more dramatic. Each crush got their own entry on my Yahoo 360 blog – a chronicle of my unrequited affections. Probably a few of you out there still remember my posts about Mango and Papaya. 😉
These blog entries were always written spontaneously at internet cafes, taking just an hour or two. Even without ChatGPT, my writing back then was quite poetic and attracted quite a few views from friends, while my essay grades barely scraped a 5/10. 🫣
Yet here I am now, with a chance to write again. Yahoo 360 is long gone, but luckily we have [hoangyell.com](https://hoangyell.com/), even better to tell the story of my final character!
## 🚕 Destiny’s Carpool
Despite falling in love early, it took 15 years later to find the angel of my life. Together, we make the perfect angel-and-demon duo.
But how did this angel meet her demon? (Actually, it should be vice versa 😈)
One fateful day, while carpooling (think UberX Share) from Huế to Đà Nẵng, my eagle eyes spotted a ridiculously cute girl, making my heart do the tango 💓.
Sadly, I was riding shotgun while she was in the back. Poof! She disappeared, and just like that, the opportunity was gone - leaving me drowning in regret.
## 💘 Cupid’s Master Plan
A month later, destiny worked its magic. Same day, same time, same ride - but this time, we were sitting side by side. The odds of such a coincidence were almost impossible, and I knew I couldn’t let this chance slip away. 🕊️
It was a great moment in my life. My heart beat so hard, I felt like I was in heaven in that cramped car. Sometimes, heaven had a thunderstorm ⛈️ with the gentle touch between me and her. ❤️🔥
I wanted to say hello and break the ice 🥶, but how? The car was full of people, and I was too shy to speak up. Thankfully, we were the last two left in the car, giving me the perfect opportunity.
The rest, as they say 😎, is history… 📖
> But here's the REAL kicker:
>
> As we started talking, I realized she was the one who’d sent me an anonymous love letter back in high school – a letter I’d kept all these years, never knowing who wrote it.
>
> Unbelievable! Fate brought us back together in the most epic way possible. That's why I'm writing this blog post.
>
> Damn it, unbelievable indeed, because GPT totally made this up - absolute nonsense, but what a plot twist!
And that’s how it went, folks - From Shared Rides to Shared Vows. From a kid pouring his unrequited crushes into a Yahoo 360 blog to a happily married man. Who would’ve thought, right?