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“Love at first sight” How a chance meeting at a music festival brought Cooglife writer Sofia Gonzalez true love and years of happiness
WRITING AND PHOTOS BY SOFIA GONZALEZ Before heading to their Waffle House date, Sofia and Felix took this photo to capture the moment.
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t was November 17, 2018, the day of Travis Scott’s first Astroworld Music Festival, and I was ecstatic to be going. Little did I know, later that day I would be meeting the love of my life. I showed up at the festival with my friends, but they decided they wanted to stay in the merchandise line, which was hours long. I told them that they could take my debit card and buy whatever they thought I would like because I didn’t want to stay there all day, I wanted to go watch all the performances. So, I left them to go find another one of my friend groups that I knew was at the festival. About halfway through the day, I decided that I wanted to meet back up with the original group I came with. So, I got on my phone and I called them. I, unfortunately, could 12
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not hear anything, and I knew I had to come up with a Plan B fast. After ending the call and giving up on finding my friends, I walked two more steps and introduced myself to a group of guys. I told them what happened and asked if I could stay with them for the rest of the festival because I really did not want to be alone. That was when I met Felix. Felix and I locked eyes, and he came to talk to me. He introduced himself, and it was from this moment on that we became inseparable. We talked for the rest of the festival, and we even left the crowd so we could be by ourselves. We talked about everything and anything. Time felt like it had slowed down just for us. It felt like we were the only two people at the show, and there were a total of
