The summer after my senior year of high school I started dating one of my best female friends. It was working out relatively well, but it was clear that I had much stronger feelings for her than she did for me. She broke up with me after a month or so, saying that she didn'​t want to have a boyfriend when she left for college because it would hurt too much to leave me behind. I was upset, but agreed to revert back to being just friends.

Not more than three days later, I found out that she was dating another guy, who I had previously been suspicious of while we were dating. I called her and said some things (some of which I regret) that most assuredly ended our friendship for good.

After having lost both a girlfriend and a best friend in one fell swoop, I left for college at the end of the summer depressed and rueful. I spent the semester wishing I had done things differently and regretting the decisions I had made in the previous months.

By winter break, I was ready to come home. On New Years Eve, I went with my friend Andrew to a huge party in LA, and I met a girl there. We danced, joked, and laughed together pretty much the whole night. As fate would have it, this girl happened to be the ex of the guy that my ex left me for in the beginning of the summer. We connected right away, and after a few weeks we started dating.

It'​s been one year and fifteen days since New Years Eve when I met my girlfriend, and we are still dating (and I heard through the grapevine that my ex and my girlfriend'​s ex had broken up because she cheated on him. Glad I got out of that one early!) We even go to the same school together now, and we have plans to move in together at the end of this school semester. I love her more and more every day, and she loves me too.

This was without a doubt the greatest, most life changing coincidence of my life. Thank you coincidink.com for giving me a venue to share my story!