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Imagine the joy- or the sheer terror - when you discover that you were always meant to be with the person you are married to.
New Jersey couple Jourdan and Ryan Spencer discovered recently that their debut date in 2004 wasn't really the first time they had crossed paths. They had first seen each other 16 years before that, as children.
While watching home videos together, they came across footage from 1988 when a 10-year-old Jourdan and her family were visiting an amusement park in Pennsylvania. A little boy on the screen suddenly caught Ryan's eye. 'Wow, he looks like me,' said Ryan, reports ABC News.
Turns out, the 13-year-old bespectacled boy was actually Ryan. He is now 40.
In the clip, Jourdan's mother and sister are seen waiting for Jourdan to return from a water slide. As she approaches the family's meeting spot, 13-year-old Ryan walks into the frame.
The couple then rewound the video and kept watching it several times, because they just couldn't believe what they saw.
In a strange coincidence, Ryan and Jourdan were introduced 16 years later on a blind date. They got married in 2007, and now live in New Jersey with their three children -- Sophia, Max and Mabel.
The video that shows when they met as kids has now gone viral with over 3 million views.
Watch the video here: