Gone are the days where love letters and beautifully romantic gestures are a thing now that Tinder has made it easier than ever to show your interest in someone with a simple swipe.

Why Britain's countryside is still unwelcoming for people of colourOr, so we thought…

Taylor Blake may be just what the world needs to remind them that people enjoy being swept off their feet and doted upon.

Of course, what with her being a millennial, the story does start with an app.


Taylor had downloaded Her, an LGBT app for women, so that she could make friends on a family road trip – but she ended up not using it once on that trip.



When she arrived home, she decided to log onto the app out of boredom.

As fate would have it, she ‘stumbled across a picture of the prettiest girl’ she had ever seen, she told Seventeen.com.

always smiling around you pic.twitter.com/yV7PSKJSnO — google (@hiitaylorblake) July 22, 2016

‘I actually looked at my friend and jokingly said: “UPDATE: I think I found my soulmate”,’ she said.

‘I liked her photo, and waited. I figured she would never be interested in me, but I refused to delete the app, just in case.’

Unfortunately for Taylor, it wasn’t an instant match.

After a lifetime of waiting (or, four months in the real world) Taylor was about to give up and delete the app when she noticed she’d missed a message from her crush, Josie Paine, just three days earlier.

Josie had complimented Taylor’s purple hair, messaging her to say: ‘You look like a beautiful unicorn!’

The pair hit it off and ended up going on a date to a local park, in the rain.

Yep, it’s a real-life The Notebook situation.

According to Taylor, Josie looked just like her pictures, and she was ‘intimidated by her beauty’. Sigh.

To document said beauty, and the feelings which were so strongly increasing as they got to know each other better, Taylor, an avid writer, was inspired to start a journal.

The first entry sounds like the start to a romantic comedy:

‘I had a date today, with a girl I once jokingly referred to as my soulmate (at least I think it was a date). We got rained on but she still looked so beautiful.’

the moment i met her i started keeping a journal of our memories, tonight i used the journal to ask her to be mine?? pic.twitter.com/S5y3G1voQg — google (@hiitaylorblake) July 13, 2016

The second was so beautifully written that it’ll probably make you fall for Taylor yourself:

‘She is walking poetry, the type I want to spend hours a day reading despite the paper cuts on my fingers from turning the pages so excitedly. I have never been one to compare human beings to art, yet I find myself getting lost in the sculpture that is her body.

‘Every word she speaks oozes love and although love is not an emotion we have yet developed for one another, I have grown to love the way her words make me feel – and in a world ridden with holes from the laden bullets of hate, maybe finding peace in a piece, of art, is exactly what we all need.

More: Lifestyle The Hoxton launches 30-guest wedding package for £6,000 - including stunning cake New study explains why time flies when we're having fun Asda is now selling two Lindt chocolate spreads - so don't all rush at once Yorkshire Tea launches toast and jam flavour brew



Call me an aesthete, I watch her look in the mirror and realize (sic) I’ve now witnessed art, admiring art. She is my favorite gallery.’

Though the entries may seem like the start to a romantic novel, they were actually written for a pretty important reason.

A couple of days after the second entry, Taylor took Josie out for dinner and surprised her with the journal.

She asked her to read the two entries previously written, before turning to the last page to see a surprise entry, which read:

‘There are 40 more pages in this journal. The first 19 pages were our memories from MY perspective. I’d like the remaining pages to be future memories from OUR perspective. Be mine?’

Obviously, Josie said yes – and she decided to show Taylor just how romantic she could be herself, by taking the journal with her on a trip she was going on.

Throughout the trip, Josie used the journal to write cute messages to her now-girlfriend. Each time, she took a picture of the message and sent it over to Taylor to let her know she hadn’t stopped thinking about her.

my girl took the journal i gave her to california and she's been sending me these ?❤️ pic.twitter.com/0SMAdCn2ER — google (@hiitaylorblake) July 15, 2016

Taylor posted pictures of the messages to Twitter, together with the diary entries Taylor had written herself, and the couple have melted the hearts of thousands.

While, also making us realise even more so how swiping right on Tinder only to receive a d*ck pic really does make us sad.

MORE: Deaf baby girl hears her mum’s voice for the first time and gives the cutest little grin


MORE: 14 things every long-term couple has attempted to spice up their relationship

Advertisement Advertisement