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Two Kelly Hildebrandts Wed Thanks to Facebook

by Leila Brillson on July 21, 2009 at 03:16 PM


Sometimes, when it comes to whirlwind romances and soul mates, when you know, you just know. But every now and then, potential love needs some help, a type of sign, like, say, uniting a couple with the same name.

Everyone on Facebook has searched for themselves to see if they can find anyone else with the same name. But for the Kelly Hildebrandts, that search led to a love connection. A guy and gal, each named Kelly Hildebrandt, found each other over the social networking site, when female Kelly sent a message to a guy with the same name. According to NBC Miami, girl Kelly said, "I searched my own name and he's the only one who came up, and actually in the picture, he didn't have a shirt on, and I was like 'Oh, he's cute.'" Three weeks after the initial Facebook message, boy Kelly flew to Florida to see the woman that shares his name. The rest is history.

Male Kelly Hildebrandt, 24, transferred to Florida from Texas to be closer to female Kelly Hildebrandt, 20, while she finishes up Palm Beach Community College. The two will be married in October, just eight months after they met, but the only reservations seem to be logistical. "He's even already got some mail coming in, and we have to open everything, because we don't know whose mail is whose," girl Kelly says. According to Kelly (the dude), the pair have dug into 250 years of genealogy and have found no common relatives -- just a common name -- making any potential name swaps a cinch. Cheers, Kellys! [From: NBC Miami]

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