Story 7

Back in seventh grade, I made a friend who was in two of my classes. One day during lunch, I was talking to him, and then I looked around the cafeteria and saw him sitting at another table. I was like, “What?” and then I turned around and saw him sitting at my table.
It turned out he had a twin, so I had one class with him and another with his brother. I didn’t find out for about two weeks. © SonOfTheNorthe / Reddit

Story 8

I dated someone last year for a couple of months, and things were pretty good between us. One day, he grew cold and distant from me out of the blue, and I thought I had done something wrong. Next thing I knew, he uploaded a picture on Facebook of him kissing a woman, and they had been together ever since.

Story 9

Story 10

First day at uni in a new city, I met a great guy. We shared the same dark sense of humor and became pretty instant friends. Months later, my father died suddenly. I went home to my family and missed a lot of uni.

After the funeral, I was sitting with my whole extended family when I got a call from my mate. I told him I’d been away because of a death in the family. He suddenly started asking loads of questions—who had died, if it was my father, what his name was. I was confused and asked him what was going on.

It turned out his parents had been at my dad’s funeral. He was a cousin I didn’t know I had. It was a wonderful moment of connection in a dark time. It felt like something out of a storybook.