We started talking about photos, and Andy pulled out his wallet to show his mom the new photos of the girls that I had taken. While flipping through the photos I came across my Senior Picture. I had given this one to him after we had already been dating, well into our twenties. His mom asked if that was the photo I had given to him in highschool. Although it wasn't he actually DOES have a photo I gave to him in high school.
- Mini Back story here : If you didn't already know, Andy and I have known each other since Freshman year of high school. -
I had about 5 different photos of my to give to people for my Senior ones. You know, the wallet-sized photos you pass out to friends your Senior year. I had several poses. One of the photos that I had taken for my senior portraits was me in a baseball hat. I was a tomboy. I loved baseball hats. I used to have really long hair and always wore a pony tail with it. It was my favorite photo. It was fall, I was wearing an old sweater that I had gotten from Goodwill ( gosh I loved shopping at that store and getting second hand T-shirts and sweaters )
The photo was so me. Tomboy and in a sweater, in the fall with the changing leaves. That's why I loved it.
The hat that I used in the pictures was one that I had found in the parking lot at school one day. It was a beat-up, blue ADIDAS hat. I used to wear it all the time, it was awesomely worn in and comfortable. I didn't wash it. I just found it one day and plopped it on my head. The hat was immortalized in one of my senior pictures.
I lost the hat. I don't know where it went or if I left it somewhere, etc... but it is gone. I was pretty upset about it. But I imagine that the hat had to make its way onto someone else who was to love it. You know, kinda like a traveling hat who wandered its way through life to people who needed it. ( this was the story in my head )
Several, several years later, after I had started dating Andy, he was looking through some pictures of mine and came across all of my senior ones. He got to the one of me in the blue hat.
"I had a hat JUST like that." He said.
I joked that it probably was his hat because I found it.
"That IS my hat!"
Come to find out, he had lost his hat when we were in high school, right around the same time that I was to find that blue adidas hat in the parking lot at school.
We're 100% convinced that the hat that he lost was the hat that I had discovered.
We told his mom that story and she smiled the entire time.
"It was fate"
Perhaps. But it is a pretty good story to tell people. Maybe we were meant to end up together.
It's kismet that something that belonged to my future husband would be photographed in my high school portraits.
And I am sorry I lost his hat. It would have made an even better one if I still had it. Now That would have blown everyone's mind. I still would have kept it, though. You know, finders keepers and all. I would have let him borrow it from time to time. I joke with him that if I would have known it was his hat, I probably still wouldn't have given it back.
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