00:00He would like send me cute things at work and stuff like that.
00:02I was pretty much like, that's my boo.
00:08In today's modern world, it seems like social apps are a go-to for meeting people.
00:13Is it impossible to meet someone authentically anymore?
00:16True story, I met my boyfriend on the metro in Paris.
00:19On Valentine's Day.
00:21So go ahead, roll your eyes.
00:23I do it too because it seems too perfect to be true.
00:26But does how you meet someone really matter?
00:30This is how to love.
00:32How did you guys meet?
00:33I downloaded Tinder, saw this super hot chick, Denise.
00:38She swiped around me.
00:39I wrote her a message all excited like, ciao, say bella.
00:43You're beautiful.
00:44And she was like, ciao.
00:46He pulled up an email from 2005 that I emailed him, I'm going to marry you.
00:50We had like a cookout on our campus.
00:53And he came, sat next to me, and we ended up talking.
00:57And he just made me laugh.
00:58He was hilarious.
00:59So after that conversation, all she wrote.
01:03We actually got in a fight over a cab.
01:05I was like, I hailed it.
01:06It's my cab.
01:07Then he was like, wait, where are you going?
01:08And I was like, Brooklyn.
01:10And he was like, me too.
01:12So we ended up sharing the cab.
01:13Sharing the cab.
01:14Exchanging phone numbers.
01:15And then he texted me.
01:17I was like, who's that guy?
01:19And I have no game, so I ran to the bathroom.
01:22And then when I came out, I had to go up to him.
01:25Use my number, come to my bar.
01:26And as soon as she saw me come outside, she grabbed me and pushed me up against the wall
01:29and kissed me.
01:30And we were friends for a few years.
01:31And then we started dating.
01:32We've pretty much been together since that night.
01:34He totally went home with me.
01:36So when he tries to act like he played, how hard you get, he went home with me that night.
01:40Yeah.
01:41And spilled beer all over my bed.
01:42Yeah.
01:43When you guys met, did you consider yourselves available?
01:47Oh, yeah.
01:47Yeah.
01:49Yeah.
01:50Oh, yeah.
01:51Well, I was single.
01:52Like, were you seeing someone else?
01:55Yeah, I was.
01:57All right.
01:59You know that.
02:00No, I know.
02:01I had a boyfriend.
02:03In my own head, I was available.
02:08Maybe not to the guy I was with.
02:10Were you looking for a relationship when you met?
02:12Yes.
02:13I wasn't.
02:14At that point, I was so young.
02:15At 16, you weren't really thinking of marriage at that point in time.
02:20I just wanted to have someone that I felt could be my companion, my buddy, my friend, my lover.
02:28No.
02:29Not at all.
02:29Not at all.
02:30I was so opposite of that.
02:31Me too.
02:32I was like, I just want to have sex, have a good time.
02:35But when I did find her, I was trying to lock it down.
02:38Like, I didn't want anyone.
02:39You had to swoop in fast.
02:40I had to, yeah.
02:41What was your first impression of each other?
02:43Oh, I thought you were really cute.
02:46Oh, God.
02:47I'm Mikel from Los Angeles, California.
02:51And I thought he was an asshole.
02:53I saw him for the first time, actually, when I was in high school.
03:25And he was walking down the steps.
03:27I'm used to, so it kind of attracted me.
03:29Glitter in his hair.
03:31It was like that situation.
03:33I didn't have glitter in my hair.
03:34Or like all over.
03:35You had glitter.
03:36It wasn't a drag queen.
03:37No, because there was glitter.
03:38No.
03:38You were so shy.
03:40And I could really just see in your eyes, you were like so excited to talk to me.
03:46And I was, no, I just remember that look.
03:49Ugh.
03:49And like, that's, I think that's like what made me like fall in love with him.
03:55Because I just knew how happy he was to be talking to me.
03:59So like, no.
04:00And I just was like, that is so cute.
04:02What do you think your life would be like if you didn't meet each other?
04:06Pretty boring.
04:08Oh.
04:09Whoa.
04:10I don't want to know.
04:13I probably still have rusting bitch face.
04:15Like, I can't even, I don't know.
04:16I honestly have no idea what I'd be doing.
04:18I would probably be in Italy right now, I guess.
04:20I wasn't feeling that was my home.
04:23So I was about to leave five days before she, I met her.
04:26So, probably I wouldn't be here right now.
04:29A part of me wants to say I would be like doing some sort of artist in residence somewhere in
04:36Europe.
04:37And you wouldn't have Hendrickson's love.
04:39Oh yeah, absolutely.
04:40Oh yeah, I wouldn't be a mom.
04:41Which is the best part of my life.
04:44Sorry.
04:46I don't know, I've never, I've never experienced the love that we have with anybody else.
04:51And I think it's really wonderful and special.
04:54And I don't know, it's hard to, it's hard to even imagine.
05:03Stop putting pressure on how you meet people.
05:06Whether someone jumps in front of a speeding car to save your life,
05:09or you both just swipe right, it really doesn't matter.
05:12Love can't be forced.
05:14If it's right, it will happen.
05:16And if it's not, it will fizzle out no matter how romantic the initial meeting was.
05:19Trust your gut and believe in the balance between destiny and the world's complete and total randomness.
05:28I said, Danny, look, I love you.
05:30I want to be with you.
05:31If you can wait till I finish school, let's get married.
05:33Let's just get married and know that we're going to be together forever.
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