Two women who spent a DECADE bonding on Facebook without ever meeting reveal they have now MARRIED after discovering they lived just a few blocks apart
It is a modern romance that has been in the works for ten years.
It didn’t take a swipe for Tracie Brown and her current wife Cheryl Parsa-Brown’s modern romance, making their relationship official a decade after they first became friends on Facebook.
Dallas-based Tracie, 50 and 62-year-old Cheryl spent years chatting online and slowly getting to know each other over the years — after initially forming a bond through Cheryl’s affairs.
But one day, after talking to each other for years, Cheryl noticed a rather surprising coincidence when she looked at a photo posted by Tracy: the pair had nearly identical views from their homes.
“In all the years we’ve been Facebook friends, we’ve lived blocks apart and never even met,” Cheryl exclaimed. “It felt like fate.”
Tracie (left) and Cheryl (right) married ten years after meeting on Facebook
After years of online chats and messages, the couple is now married
It was Tracie who sent the first friend request nine years ago, after following Cheryl’s company page.
“We only responded to each other’s messages until I messaged her five years ago saying I loved her energy and that was our first interaction,” Tracie said.
“It was the social media that helped us get to know each other before we even met,” she added. “So I felt very intimately familiar with her.”
However, the romance didn’t get going until Texas froze over; and Tracie was left shivering and starving in her own home after a brutal ice storm hit Dallas.
“I was just on Facebook and all of a sudden I see Tracie’s face in my news feed,” Cheryl recalls. “But it wasn’t the face I’d always known, it was an orange hoodie with no makeup, just this pathetic look.”
Cheryl invited her in for food and warmth, putting the couple in a situation that “felt like fate.”
“She got out of the car and started walking towards me and immediately my arms went up because I wanted to hug her,” she said. “Finally I met this person whom I have admired for so long.
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The couple became official over a beautiful dinner six months after they met, but a few days later, Cheryl put a stop to the budding relationship.
“I had all kinds of feelings and I didn’t know what to do with them,” she admitted. “I was sixty at the time, so it sounds ridiculous, but I was afraid to tell my mother.”
An ice storm in Dallas resulted in the couple’s ultimate encounter
Not long after meeting in person, the women decided to get married
The Dallas couple says they would never have been together without Facebook
But after catching up four months after pausing their fledgling relationship, they decided to embark on a “21-day purge” to see where it took them, and it was “the best thing we could have done for our relationship.” doing.’
“It was day 18 and she kept saying we’re just friends, but I said my friends don’t look at me the way you look at me,” Cheryl said.
“She looked at me and said, ‘I’ve always had a crush on you!'” So the next day, the next morning, I called my jeweler.’
Cheryl proposed to Tracie at her house on Valentine’s Day.
“I went to her house and our favorite pianist was playing,” Tracie said. ‘I just saw rose petals; the whole house was decorated like I can’t even imagine this night could be better because this was the perfect night. ‘
The couple married three times. An official ceremony, a wedding in Las Vegas and the ceremony that matters most to them; alone in their house.
They will also renew their vows in Mexico this year.
We wanted to get married in the house because we fell in love here, we got engaged, everything happened here and we really wanted to experience that in our first home,” Cheryl explained.
“I had a really good idea of who she was before we even met,” she added. “I thought she was beautiful, the first picture I ever saw is still my screen saver, that’s how I saw her in my mind and that’s how I’ll see her forever.”
Tracie says she’s thankful for Facebook because she’s not sure she would have ever met the love of her life otherwise.
“There was no way we’d ever meet her in person, so social media is a powerful way to connect people who might otherwise never have met in their entire lives, but through this platform,” she explained . “I am eternally grateful to share our story, which is unconventional for many people.”