How We Met

By Mia Iverson

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Sadie Johnson and Josh Weltha first met at a mutual friend’s birthday party in the eighth grade. He had long shaggy hair and she was not used to talking to guys.

“I remember we just sat down and talked the whole time. It was the first time I talked to a guy for that long,” Johnson, Osage City sophomore, says.

After the party they exchanged e-mails and went their separate ways. For about a month they chatted online, but then life happened.

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World Wide Womance: Sadie Johnson and Josh Weltha got to know each other by chatting online.

“I forgot about him and I’m pretty sure you forgot about me,” Johnson says. Innocently, Weltha, Reading junior, nods his head yes.

Cut to four years later.

Both Johnson, who was then a senior in high school, and Weltha, a freshman at Emporia State University, had just ended their respective long-term relationships. So one day, out of the blue, Weltha decided to give a little “hello” to Johnson through Facebook messaging.

Shortly afterward, they hung out for the first time in four years. Weltha went to Johnson’s softball game, in which she hit her first homerun. “I was showing off,” she says. Shortly afterward, they made their relationship official.

Rubbing shoulders, giggling and finishing each other’s sentences, you would think that Sadie and Josh are happy newlyweds.

“Thanks to Facebook, I’ve found the love of my life,” Johnson says.

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