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Lakewood, PA 18439, USA on the 27th of May, 2018, at 10:00pm

By Taylor T

I went to Elements Music Festival last year on a whim - got my day ticket and drove up with a friend. It was the last day of the festival and I was meeting a few friends at the Rezz set right before I had to drive home. When I saw them, they were with another friend who they introduced me to for a split second, his name was Casey. I danced with Casey and my friends for two minutes probably, before I took off and bounced around dancing all over the rest of the set. Once it was over, I ran back to grab my bags and some friends I was driving home with.

I hopped onto the shuttle bus that would take us from the festival to my car. There was a guy sitting behind me that kept touching my hat (in his defence it was a soft fuzzy bear hat so I couldn't blame him for wanting to touch it). However, I was tired and not amused at the time so I turned around to give him an intense glare that would cue that I wanted him to stop touching me. I sat back around, and just a couple seconds later AGAIN! HE WAS TOUCHING MY HAT. This time I turned around and gave him a death stare for a solid 10 seconds. I could see he was wildly uncomfortable, so I turned back around and sunk into my seat.

When I got back to my car, I packed in with a few friends and we drove back to Brooklyn. We got home at 5am. The next morning I had to work at 8am. I woke up and was rummaging through my stuff. I picked up the fuzzy bear hat and saw a clothespin attached on the back. I was mortified! That poor kid on the bus was never touching my hat, it had been the clothespin hitting the back of the seat on the bus the entire time.

On the clothespin read, Happy Elements 2018! On the other side of the pin read, @CaseyFnLovesYou - which was Casey's Instagram handle (the guy my friends had introduced me to for a split second at the Rezz set).

I added him on Instagram and we started talking. He lived on Long Island and I lived in Brooklyn - so it was difficult to casually meet up. At one point he jokingly messaged me and said, "Look, I know you're dying to meet me and we don't exactly live close to one another." Then he said, "Why don't we watch a Netflix movie together. You can watch it from your house and I'll watch from mine and we can text through it." I thought that was absolutely adorable and I was excited about it. I hadn't been on a date in a long time and this was perfect. After we watched the movie, he asked if I wanted to meet him for a drink somewhere near me in Brooklyn and we did a few days later.

8 months later - and we're so in love. The universe has a funny way of bringing people together and I couldn't be happier.