After agreeing to meet in person once the football championship was over, I went to the final expecting only a chance to support my brother. With my cap pulled down, I shouted myself hoarse—then the opposing captain suddenly fumbled the ball and sent the stadium into chaos. Right after that, my phone lit up with a message from my never-met online boyfriend: [Babe, do you like number 18?] I lifted my head and saw him—standing at the other end of the field, staring directly at me.
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