I’m now head over heels for my long distance friend I finally met in person.

I (33M) have been talking to this girl (30F) for 7 years on Instagram. She’s a semi popular model with 100k followers and I’m just a normal dude with 250 followers. By some miracle, she saw my first message all those years ago and we’ve talked on Instagram for all these years. We live about 1000 miles from each other and have tried to meet multiple times but it never worked because whenever I was where she lives, she wasn’t around, and vice versa (we both travel a lot). Finally, this past week, we finally met after all these years. We had a 4 hour lunch together and it was like we had known each other for years instantly and we had so much fun laughing and telling stories and really getting to know each other more deeply than our silly Instagram messages. Halfway through lunch she leans across the table and goes “how long are you here?” and I said “I have to fly out tomorrow morning”. Without skipping a beat she says “change your flight”. I couldn’t because I had a business dinner that I had to be at that night but MY GOD did I want to stay longer and hangout more. She’s so funny, sweet, and just as gorgeous in person and I honestly thought I was dreaming while sitting across from her at lunch. I’ll admit I had a bit of a crush all this time but now I’m actively thinking of trying to spend winters where she lives to be closer and see her more.

I’m smitten.