Kasey Bergh, 53, thought she was texting her work colleague, but she actually messaged 23-year-old Henry Glendening
True love: Kasey Bergh and Henry
Glendening
These loved-up newlyweds have shown we might
not need Tinder after all.
Not only has this pair's love blossomed despite them being
complete strangers – it's also crossed the age gap.
Divorcee Kasey Bergh, 53, accidentally sent a text to complete
stranger 23-year-old Henry Glendening thinking she was contacting a work
colleague.
Instead of just politely
telling Kasey she
had got the wrong number, he also
suggested he would be "down to hang" with her.
The rest, as they say, is history. Kasey, while on a business
trip in Denver, in Colorado, replied with an apology and the pair got chatting.
They
met a week later before falling in love.
Kasey told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "I had totally
embraced I was single and that I never needed a guy. Then I met Henry."
Talking about their 30-year age gap, Henry said it "really
didn't make any difference".
"We
were so connected at that point through deeper stuff," he said.
"From the very, very beginning it felt like we were on the
same wavelength."
Two years after the chance text, Henry proposed to Kasey while
playing her favourite song in the restaurant they were dining in.
This summer, they got married in front of the flood wall of the
Mississippi River.
Henry
said the remarkable courtship was inspired by The Secret – a book that claims
positive thinking can create life-changing experiences.
He said
his text to Kasey was a one-in-lifetime moment to see what happened, after he was stuck in a dead-end job and an
unhappy relationship.
