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Crystal Brown and John Woerly

Crystal Brown and John Woerly

At Long Last Love

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T hey met 15 years ago at the University of North Texas and quickly became college friends . According to Crystal , they originally met at Bruce Hall at UNT , but John says they met at The Tomato , a pizza joint next to campus .

They worked together at a hotel for a few years , went to the same hangouts , and Crystal ’ s sofa became a favorite crash place for John when on late nights he was too tired to make the drive from Denton back to his place in Fort Worth .
“ I never had the slightest inkling that he was interested in me as anything other than a friend ,” Crystal said .
Then she moved to Hawaii , got married , had a baby and divorced . In the summer of 2009 , Crystal returned to her hometown of Weatherford , lugging two carloads full of possessions and her 3-year-old daughter .
Over the five years she ’ d been away , Crystal had sort of grown apart from her friends . She decided it was time to catch up so she got a Facebook account and began looking up friends from high school and college .
“ John was one of the first people I found on Facebook when I started rounding up my friends ,” she said .
One of their first conversations on Facebook led to an exchange of phone numbers . “ He asked about my daughter , Lucia ,” Crystal said . “ He told me his sister , niece and nephew were planning to visit from Fort Hood that weekend and the kids were about Lucia ’ s age . He arranged for us all to meet at the Fort Worth Zoo .”
When John ’ s sister had to cancel on the zoo outing , John didn ’ t want to disappoint Crystal or her daughter so he said he ’ d still meet them .
Crystal and John arrived in the zoo parking lot about the same time , and one of the first things she thought was , “ I don ’ t remember him being so good-
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