Just sharing a story I saw on the Web…

So this guy, Patrick Moberg, from New York, spots the girl of his dreams while waiting for a subway; love at first sight if you will. He’s 21 and a designer for Vimeo (a startup, think Youtube in high-res). Said guy quickly makes a sketch of her and posts it up on www.nygirlofmydreams.com. Can you guess the ending?..

Yes! Word gets around, even in crusty New York, and he finds the girl. She was Camille Hayton, an Australian interning in the city. An update on the site read:

FOUND HER!

A friend of hers came across the site, recognized the description, and sent me an email. We’ve been put in touch with one another and we’ll see what happens!

But there’re endings, and there’re endings. Real life ones. www.nygirlofmydreams.com was updated a few months later with a wistful farewell:

Here’s where it gets tricky… In our best interest, there will be no more updates to this website. Unlike all the romantic comedies and bad pop songs, you’ll have to make up your own ending for this.

Not good enough for the noseys around though, and the real ending was indeed dug up by an Australian magazine. They broke up after two months.

I think each person would take away something different from the tale. Is it the journey or the destination? :). In Camille’s words:

I wanted to give it a go, so I wouldn’t later wonder, ‘What if, what if?’

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