The THIS CAT IS C H O N K Y Facebook group is a pretty wonderful place.
It’s a group dedicated to large cats, filled with all the chubby boys and hefty girls you could dream of.
But it turns out the group is doing more than just bringing us the joy of cat photos – it’s bringing people together.
Anna Hosey, 25, and Adam Lawrence, 28, are a couple who connected over a shared love of chunky felines, travelling 4,000 miles to meet after Adam posted a photo of himself and a friend’s cat on the group and Anna called him ‘cute’.
It all started back in October 2019, when Adam, a graphic design graduate living in London, UK, posted two photos of himself with a very fluffy cat.
Anna, a hair stylist living in Chicago, Illinois, commented on the photos, writing: ‘Both v v cute’.
And that was the start of something magical.
Anna tells Metro.co.uk: ‘I had just recently joined the group and immediately noticed Adam, so I made a comment in regards to how cute him and the cat both were.
‘Adam sent me a private message after I had made the comment and we immediately hit it off based off our massive similarities in music taste and learned we had much more in common after that.’
Over the months that followed, Adam and Anna chatted about everything, bonding over video and phone chats on an almost daily basis.
Both felt a spark, and in December Adam decided he would travel 4,000 miles to meet Anna and her chonky cat, Kidden.
‘We were wildly curious on what would happen if we saw one another in person,’ Anna says. ‘We both felt things had become romantic via phone and wanted to know if it would be the same.
‘Meeting in real life was surreal. But also very natural, like we weren’t strangers at all and there was no awkwardness involved. It was all so… simple.’
Thankfully, Kidden approved of Adam too.
‘They took a shine to each other from the get off,’ says Anna. ‘Kidden normally doesn’t immediately interact with others, but this time it was not the case. Those two together has been a lovely sight to see!’
Anna and Adam are now ‘somewhere between dating and a relationship’ and are still trying to figure out things out as their connection is still ‘fresh and new’, but Anna plans to visit London to see Adam again in February.
Anna shared the story on the THIS CAT IS C H O N K Y group, writing: ‘I really never thought I would meet a cute boy from commenting on one of his posts on This Cat is Chonky…
‘But it totally happened, here we are after Adam traveled 4,000 miles to the USA from London to meet Kidden and I.
‘I speak for the both of us that we are so glad he did.’
That post has received thousands of comments calling the story adorable and wishing for the same.
One group member wrote: ‘The love of chonks, the greatest power in the universe!’
True that.
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source https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/17/man-travels-4000-miles-meet-date-called-cute-facebook-group-dedicated-chonky-cats-11918151/
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