Love can give you butterflies and lead to some quirky actions, like writing a love confession on a barf bag. Meet Andrea, whose in-flight note has the internet buzzing. While on a flight, she got so bored that she wrote a sweet confession, later found by an airline staff member who posted it online. The letter has since gone viral, and now strangers are on a mission to uncover the identity of her mystery crush.
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“If you’re reading this, hello! My name is Andrea and I am incredibly bored. Right now this flight is going from Miami to DC,” The passenger had scribbled in the note. “So, I bought the ticket last night at 4 am because I have a huge crush on my best friend. He’s flying from Boston to New Orleans and has a layover in DC.” She explained that since she lived in DC, she was anyway going to fly there, but since she was going to leave for Australia in four days for a semester abroad, this was urgent. She needed to get to the airport, surprise her man, and tell him that she had a crush on him.
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“Bold move right? But see I’m going to Australia for a semester abroad in 4 days and I won’t see him for 5 months so it’s the last chance I have,” she wrote. “I don’t really know what I’m gonna say but I’m just gonna wing it. Why not I mean I’m leaving so who cares? I dunno man, wish me luck whoever you are.”
She explained that she was bored, her WiFi wasn’t working, and she was nervous, so writing the note seemed like a good idea. The caffeine from Starbucks didn’t help either. “Anyway, hope this has made your flight a little less boring,” she metaphorically sighed, ending the note with a heartfelt message, “Do me a favor and do something crazy today like I am. Good luck whoever you are.”
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Dated February 7, 2018, the note was written on an airline barf bag. The flight member who found it, u/ho_riene, posted snapshots of the note from the front and back sides and wrote, “Found this in the back pocket of a seat on an aircraft I was cleaning last year.” The post was shared in the r/pics group and has garnered over 50,000 upvotes and more than a thousand comments.
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Andrea’s sweet confession note left people in suspense, eager to know what happened next, like a cliffhanger in a romantic movie. u/dailydoseoferik said that this seems “like the start of a rom-com.”
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Others turned into sleuths, trying to crack the mystery of who this woman Andrea is, and what happened to her love story. One of them, u/ostonero, pondered on two of her statements, analyzing them for timescale, “She says, ‘I actually live in DC and was gonna go up soon,’ but then says ‘I’m going to Australia for a semester abroad in 4 days.’ So when was she planning on going home?” u/dauphinbones guessed, “Maybe she was going home for a few days to pack for her abroad trip?”
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Another detective, u/friedmackerel, reflected on Andrea’s statement about her going to an Australian university to study, analyzing several university programs available in Australia at that particular time. They also said, “Maybe Google combination of her name, university, and semester should provide a hit, guessing there won’t be many an Andrea from DC who went to these three institutes as a transfer student for that semester!”
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u/noeleraser recalled their own similar experience, “About 30 years ago, I did something similar. I wrote a letter on one of the pages of a magazine on the plane. I left my home address and several months later, someone took the time to write me and send me a letter. At the time I was a kid and it was one of the most exciting things that ever happened to me at the time.”
People are still seeking updates on Andrea, but none have surfaced yet. “I feel kind of cheated, knowing I’ll never know what happened with these two, it seems like a sweet love story but we’ll never know for sure,” said u/xool420.
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u/ho_riene said she put the note back in the aircraft pocket and Redditors are hoping someone else will read it there. The mystery of the passenger's love interest hasn’t been solved yet, but as u/ho_riene said in the caption, “Wherever you are, I hope it went well for you.”
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Will your current friends still be with you after seven years?
Professor shares how many years a friendship must last before it'll become lifelong
Think of your best friend. How long have you known them? Growing up, children make friends and say they’ll be best friends forever. That’s where “BFF” came from, for crying out loud. But is the concept of the lifelong friend real? If so, how many years of friendship will have to bloom before a friendship goes the distance? Well, a Dutch study may have the answer to that last question.
Sociologist Gerald Mollenhorst and his team in the Netherlands did extensive research on friendships and made some interesting findings in his surveys and studies. Mollenhorst found that over half of your friendships will “shed” within seven years. However, the relationships that go past the seven-year mark tend to last. This led to the prevailing theory that most friendships lasting more than seven years would endure throughout a person’s lifetime.
In Mollenhorst’s findings, lifelong friendships seem to come down to one thing: reciprocal effort. The primary reason so many friendships form and fade within seven-year cycles has much to do with a person’s ages and life stages. A lot of people lose touch with elementary and high school friends because so many leave home to attend college. Work friends change when someone gets promoted or finds a better job in a different state. Some friends get married and have children, reducing one-on-one time together, and thus a friendship fades. It’s easy to lose friends, but naturally harder to keep them when you’re no longer in proximity.
Some people on Reddit even wonder if lifelong friendships are actually real or just a romanticized thought nowadays. However, older commenters showed that lifelong friendship is still possible:
“I met my friend on the first day of kindergarten. Maybe not the very first day, but within the first week. We were texting each other stupid memes just yesterday. This year we’ll both celebrate our 58th birthdays.”
“My oldest friend and I met when she was just 5 and I was 9. Next-door neighbors. We're now both over 60 and still talk weekly and visit at least twice a year.”
“I’m 55. I’ve just spent a weekend with friends I met 24 and 32 years ago respectively. I’m also still in touch with my penpal in the States. I was 15 when we started writing to each other.”
“My friends (3 of them) go back to my college days in my 20’s that I still talk to a minimum of once a week. I'm in my early 60s now.”
“We ebb and flow. Sometimes many years will pass as we go through different things and phases. Nobody gets buttsore if we aren’t in touch all the time. In our 50s we don’t try and argue or be petty like we did before. But I love them. I don’t need a weekly lunch to know that. I could make a call right now if I needed something. Same with them.”
Maintaining a friendship for life is never guaranteed, but there are ways, psychotherapists say, that can make a friendship last. It’s not easy, but for a friendship to last, both participants need to make room for patience and place greater weight on their similarities than on the differences that may develop over time. Along with that, it’s helpful to be tolerant of large distances and gaps of time between visits, too. It’s not easy, and it requires both people involved to be equally invested to keep the friendship alive and from becoming stagnant.
As tough as it sounds, it is still possible. You may be a fortunate person who can name several friends you’ve kept for over seven years or over seventy years. But if you’re not, every new friendship you make has the same chance and potential of being lifelong.