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Kind World

In Lovers' Quarrel, A Stranger Intervenes

Kind World

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Kindness, Uplifting, Profound, Society & Culture, Stories

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2015

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Janne Vanessche and her boyfriend were fighting - a lovers' quarrel. The argument was over something trivial, but, to an outsider, things may have looked serious. When Janne fled to a nearby park to let off steam, she was surprised to hear an unfamiliar voice call out to her.

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0:00.0

Hi my name is Yana, I live in Belgium and I am a student.

0:05.0

I was with my boyfriend and we were walking home when we had a fight.

0:11.0

It was over something very silly, something really insignificant. Our opinions didn't align perfectly. But you know how in the heat of an argument small things can seem very important you know?

0:28.2

From an outsider's perspective it must have really looked like a serious terrible fight and I decided that you know if

0:36.6

I stay here now I might say things that I'm going to regret because I get caught up in arguments.

0:41.6

So I decided because I get caught up in arguments.

0:44.0

So I decided to cross the street and go into the park.

0:50.0

It was about 11 at night, so it was dark.

0:53.3

And I was just loitering around the park,

0:56.1

you know, trying to calm myself down.

0:59.1

And suddenly, this person calls out to me from behind me.

1:05.0

Hey, you know that he loves you, right?

1:09.0

I got a little scared, for the something guy park night you know all these red flags popping up but there was something about his posture and the way he talked he kept his distance. He had come like quite

1:28.0

a ways into the park just to find me and he suddenly he dropped my boyfriend's name. He said,

1:33.8

the guy in the entrance, you know, the blonde guy.

1:36.3

He's waiting for you and he told me that he loves you.

1:39.7

Do you love him?

1:41.3

And I replied, yes, I do and I really want to make things right.

1:47.0

And he said, you know, come on, let's go back.

1:58.4

It felt so surreal. I'm not the type of person who likes, you know, the romantic movies and the romantic ending. I'm not that type of person but at the time it really felt like I was part of one of those movies.

2:09.0

He took me by the hand because I was still crying like a child and he let me back to the entrance of the park to find my boyfriend.

2:18.5

He said, you know, all right, this fight is over right now and you're going to kiss and make up, which we did.

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