This Woman Accidentally Texted A Stranger & Ended Up Marrying Him

Three years ago, Kasey Bergh sent a text message that would alter the course of her life.

It was a relatively normal text: "Hey, it's Kasey. I was supposed to connect w Maria @ the park but her plane was delayed so I'm at the Westin. Wanted to see if I could connect w anyone else."

The message got through to the wrong person - Harry Glendening. He responded to it, writing, "Sorry you've got the wrong number. But if i wasn't headed to work I'd b down to hang ;)"

Bergh explained her situation: She was in Denver and was having trouble meeting up with coworkers. And they just kept texting. Glendening asked Bergh if she had read The Secret, a definitive text for him that seemed to embrace the idea that perhaps something bigger had helped them connect in a seemingly random stray text. 

Over the next week, the pair continued to exchange texts and struck up a courtship that ended up in a marriage ceremony on June 27, three years to the day after Bergh sent the first text.

Bergh said that in 2012, she'd "given up" on finding love, six years after a divorce. Glendening was stuck in an unhappy relationship and a dead-end job in the paint department at a Lowe's.

The couple's 30-year-age difference (Bergh is 53, Glendening is in his mid-20s) came up first over text, though by the time the two were set to meet, it was a moot point. "It really didn't make any difference," Glendening told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "We were so connected at that point through deeper stuff."

"It's not a relationship you see very often," Glendening added. "One that defies the age stereotype."

The pair went on two dates just before Glendening took off for a trip West of his own on which he says “was about solitude, reconnecting with the universe and myself.” He was planning to go to Great Basin National Park in Nevada and stopped short 30 minutes outside of the park, still in Utah, to text Bergh that he loved her and headed back home. Nawwwwww!

When Glendening proposed to Bergh, he used Led Zeppelin's "Thank You," her favorite song: "If the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you. When mountains crumble to the sea, there will still be you and me."