Amy: July 30th, 2021, I went to my hair appointment just like I had done many times before. Kristine and I started gabbing as usual. We talked about my life since the last time I saw her, she showed me pictures of her new son, the usual hairdresser-client relationship. As we giggled and gabbed, another client of Kristine's walked in. That client just so happened to be her mother, Michele. Kristine began multi-tasking between her mother and me. Naturally, Michele and I got to gabbing as well. I'll never forget the look of shock on her face when I told her I was single. Immediately, she pulled out her phone to show me a picture of her son. She gloated how handsome, fit, talented and mature her son was. She gave me his Instagram handle and told me to follow him. I obliged. He followed me back and that was that. My hair was blonder, I had a random guy follow me on Instagram and I carried on with life as usual.
Marc: It was November 23rd, 2021. I was sitting on the couch watching Netflix as any antisocial single guy does. For the past 3 to 4 months my mother and Kristine had hounded me to message this pretty blonde girl on instagram. If you know me, talking to girls was never my strong suit, so continuing to be myself, I did not message her. I just admired from a far! As I sat there watching Breaking Bad for the third time, I got a notification from "Penelopesm0m". I was so thrown off that I did not open the message or even look at my phone for a full hour because of how nervous I truly was. Fast forward an hour, I finally open the message and read "shamelessly sliding into your dm's to say hi because your mother and sister gassed you up so much". Little did I know what that message would be the start of!