A moment between strangers has captivated the hearts of people across Reddit.
In a post to r/stories, a person revealed how a wrong number text sent to them in the dead of night led to an unexpected friendship and, remarkably, an invitation to a wedding a year later. Since the post was published, it has received 48,000 upvotes and over 2,000 comments.
The story began a bit over a year ago when the Redditor received a text at 1:04 AM: “Is the green one better or the gold one? Pls answer fast.”
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With no name or context, the sender was clearly in a panic. Half-asleep, the recipient replied: “Green. Always go with the green one.”
Just two minutes later, the mystery texter responded and revealed the stakes of their dilemma: “OK THANK YOU. I’m freaking out. I think I love him? and (I don’t know) if this is a date? It’s like…a maybe-date.”
Not having the heart to reveal it was a wrong number, the Redditor offered simple encouragement—wear the green, they said. Realizing that they were communicating with a stranger, the texter expressed her gratitude. That was it, the poster assumed.
But then, a text came one week later.
“Green was the right call. It was a date. His name’s Eli. He smelled like cedar and stress,” the woman wrote to the poster. From that point, the anonymous texting evolved into a supportive dialogue for months.
“When things went badly, I’d hype her up like I was her invisible best friend in the walls,” they wrote. “The texter eventually gave her a nickname: “Text Goblin.”
The texts continued until one night in November, when a significant update arrived: “Okay Goblin. I told him I love him. And he said it back. I’m so scared. I feel like my heart is too big and soft for this world.” The Redditor sent a simple reply: “He’s lucky to have you. And green was still the right choice.”
News of A Wedding
Silence followed for two months, and the Redditor believed the connection had ended.
Then, in January, a new text arrived: “I actually have a question,” the woman wrote. “Will you come to my wedding? As my Text Goblin.”
And that is how the Redditor found themself flying to Arizona in May, “Standing in a room full of strangers, watching a woman I’ve never met walk down the aisle, wearing a green ribbon in her hair and winking at me from across the crowd.”
After the ceremony, they hugged.
The Redditor confessed to forgetting her real name, having been “so mesmerized by chaotic possible chances in the whole world,” and still had her saved in their phone as “Possibly Chaos.” They concluded, “Life is weird. But sometimes weird is kind.”
What Did the Comments Say?
The unusual and heartwarming story captivated other Redditors.
One shared a different experience of a long-lost connection: “I kept texting my roommate of 20-plus years, who moved away to take care of his parents. He swore he loved me like a sister, and we’d keep in touch,” they wrote. “After months of texts, I finally got one that said, ‘I got this as my new phone number a couple of months ago—I don’t know who you’re texting, but I think they ghosted you.’ He had changed his phone number without ever letting me know. I never texted that number again—maybe if I had, I could’ve had a Text Goblin.”
Most comments applauded the sweetness and spontaneity of the story.
“This is without a doubt the best story I’ve ever read on the internet,” one person wrote.
“The way this is both so weird and yet I teared up, cause it’s so sweet,” another shared.
Newsweek reached out to u/Important_Honey_9062 for comment via Reddit.
