Married couple discover photo of them, 11 years before they met and fall in love

Have you ever looked at your significant other and wondered, "did our paths ever cross before we met?" Or, "were we ever in the same place, at the same time before we knew each other?"

It's likely that for many couples, that definitely is the case but very few can prove it.

A couple from China were amazed to discover their paths had crossed without them knowing nearly 20 years ago, thanks to an old photograph stashed away in a family album.

Mr Ye and his wife, Ms Xue, met and fell in love in 2011.

But old photographs show that in July of 2000, they visited the May Fourth Square in the seaside city of Qingdao and snapped a photo at the same exact moment.

Mr. Ye's photo just shows him standing at the square, but in his wife's photo, you can see Mr. Ye standing in the background, wearing the same outfit and standing in the same pose as his photo.

“I heard her mention before that she had been to Qingdao, while I also went to Qingdao and took pictures at the May Fourth Square. We didn’t know it yet," Mr Ye told Sina News.

"When I saw the photo, I was taken by surprised and I got goosebumps all over my body ... that was my pose for taking photos. I also took a photo, it was the same posture (as captured in Ms Xue's photo), just from a different angle."

Like any good modern coincidence of this magnitude, their story went viral. The couple’s friends said it was incontrovertible proof the two were meant to be together. Now with twin daughters, they plan to go back to the same spot in the future.

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