a lot of us are feeling anxious right now, so I think it’s a good time for me to share some positive personal news and a story. 
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in 2014 I was in Berlin to deliver a closing keynote at
@cssconfeu. I was procrastinating working on my talk, scrolling the bird website. I saw someone I followed recently was asking if anyone wants to have coffee prior to the event. that person was@benschwarz.1 reply 0 retweets 14 likesShow this thread -
(he still gives me shit I was stalking him, but he did send a PUBLIC tweet!!) we met up for coffee and ramen. it turned out we had a lot of mutual friends, including CSSConfEU’s organiser,
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unfortunately, Ben lived in Australia and I lived in Europe, so after the event, we said goodbye and I expected to never see him again. little I knew that we would be speaking at
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Ben and
@glenmaddern invited me over to check out another CSSConf family event they were running locally in Melbourne—@cssconfau. I took the longest journey in my life to hang out in Australia for about a month. (look, I’m not gonna lie at this point I had
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after all of this jet setting, we ended up spending a few months together in Europe. when Ben had to leave due to visa reasons, he invited me to ”spend the summer in Australia”. little did I know I would still be here, nearly 5 years later.
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out of all of this travelling and an incredible family of events (endless love to CSSConf and JSConf) came out a relationship of two people who used to live on the opposite sides of the planet.
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now, as of a few days ago those two people are engaged and committed to spending their lives together.
@benschwarzpic.twitter.com/MIPoYa9dOU
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