As Dan West answered over 200 questions from students in his communications class on October 24, 2017, he had no idea one particular answer of his would make thousands of people smile.
A student of his named Tori tweeted about her professor, who recounted the moment he knew he wanted to marry his wife.
Instead of giving a long romantic answer that seemed made up, he gave a simple one: it was a normal day grocery shopping.
After Tori tweeted the story, hundreds of thousands of people were touched by the simplicity of it. The tweet already has over 342,000 likes, 77,000 retweets, and almost 300 comments.
Many who commented tagged their significant other and agreed that they'd want to grocery shop forever with that person. Others were past students who praised their professor.
Keep scrolling to see the tweet and learn about the professor, and don't forget to please SHARE on Facebook.
[H/T: BuzzFeed]
Dan West told the students in his class to write down any questions they had about love and relationships on a notecard.
A student named Tori took to her Twitter account to post about one super-sweet question.
The assistant professor at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, answered honestly, and thousands of people connected with what he had to say.
On October 24, 2017, Tori Helmke posted to Twitter about a question her professor had answered.
She wrote:
Today somebody asked my professor how he knew he wanted to marry his wife & he said, “I took her to the grocery store to get ice cream & while she was picking out a flavor, I realized she was who I wanted to grocery shop w for the rest of my life.”
The adorable tweet quickly gained popularity and racked up over 342,000 likes.
Dan answered each question about love openly and honestly.
Dan married his wife in 1993, and they've been happily in love ever since.
Dan replied to someone on Twitter saying he fell in love with his wife in 1993 at a CashWise grocery store in the ice cream aisle.
Dan even thanked Tori for sharing his story with strangers all over the world.
One Twitter user couldn't believe students would ask such personal questions.
Dan replied to her that he answered over 200 that same day.
Tori decided to share her professor's story because she knew it would make others smile.
"Nowadays, so many marriages are failing simply because people are not being as appreciated 10 years down the road as they were before they had even begun dating," she told BuzzFeed.
Dan even had some advice for younger people who are trying to get into a loving relationship like he is.
"My advice is to keep the relationship as real as possible. And to give each other some electronic space," he told BuzzFeed. "Knowing you are going to spend time together at night — even if it is studying, or doing laundry, or even 'Netflix and chill' — [it] can be far more rewarding than hundreds of useless text messages."
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