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Girl Flies Abroad To Surprise Her Boyfriend Only To Find Out He Did The Same For Her, And 611K People On Twitter Are Cracking Up
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Girl Flies Abroad To Surprise Her Boyfriend Only To Find Out He Did The Same For Her, And 611K People On Twitter Are Cracking Up

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Our beloved romantic comedies are known for featuring characters making all kinds of grand romantic gestures to express their feelings to the ones they happen to love. However, when it comes to real life, things don’t always go that smoothly.

Yesterday, Twitter user @SalmaSaade shared a post reminiscing about a pretty hilarious yet utterly romantic story that happened 4 years ago to her and her boyfriend Finlay.

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    When it comes to real life, romantic comedy-level grand gestures don’t always go as smoothly

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    4 years ago, a girl named Salma Saade was in Paris and decided to come back to Edinburgh, Scotland a day early in order to surprise her boyfriend Finlay McAfee. Little did she know, her boyfriend had a plan that was pretty similar to hers.

    4 years ago, Salma came back from Paris to Edinburgh a day early in order to surprise her boyfriend

    Image credits: SalmaSaade

    Little did she know, her boyfriend Finlay had a plan to secretly fly to Paris to surprise her with a visit

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    The woman’s tweet features a few screenshots from her conversations with her boyfriend Finlay and his friend Adam. Apparently, after arriving to Edinburgh, Salma contacted her boyfriend’s friend to find out whether Finlay was in his apartment. And that’s when she found out that her boyfriend was currently flying to Paris. In order to surprise her.

    The attempts to surprise each other resulted in Salma and Finlay ending up in separate countries

    Image credits: SalmaSaade

    The tweet quickly went viral and it currently has over 680k likes as well as almost 85k retweets

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    Image credits: SalmaSaade

    Salma’s post featuring the story of the romantic fiasco quickly went viral and gained quite a bit of attention online. After just one day, the tweet already has over 680k likes and almost 85k retweets. Many Twitter users were pointing out how this story should be turned into a real romantic comedy.

    Here’s how people reacted to the story

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    Julija Svidraitė is an editor here at Bored Panda who has a bachelor's degree in Psychology. Before starting her journey at BP, she had worked as a social media specialist at a marketing agency. She has also tried herself in a few different fields working as an intern: from practicing graphic design at a social media marketing agency, to being an assistant at a psychiatric hospital. Besides writing, Julija is also very passionate about illustrating, drinking coffee, and watching crime documentaries. You can find her in Bored Panda Office or reach her at julija.s@boredpanda.com.

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    Julija Svidraitė is an editor here at Bored Panda who has a bachelor's degree in Psychology. Before starting her journey at BP, she had worked as a social media specialist at a marketing agency. She has also tried herself in a few different fields working as an intern: from practicing graphic design at a social media marketing agency, to being an assistant at a psychiatric hospital. Besides writing, Julija is also very passionate about illustrating, drinking coffee, and watching crime documentaries. You can find her in Bored Panda Office or reach her at julija.s@boredpanda.com.

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    Casey Logan
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same thing happened to me last year. I was working in Poland and had a week off so I flew back to the UK to surprise my fiancee. Her flatmate told me she had flown out to Poland on the same day to surprise me. Never met up in the end.

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    Casey Logan
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    3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same thing happened to me last year. I was working in Poland and had a week off so I flew back to the UK to surprise my fiancee. Her flatmate told me she had flown out to Poland on the same day to surprise me. Never met up in the end.

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