Before We Ever Met

The Kindness of a Stranger

Sometimes, love does not begin with a beautiful smile, a chance meeting in a crowded room, or two strangers whose eyes meet across a street.

Sometimes, it begins with something as ordinary as a forgotten purse.

And sometimes, the person who returns that purse becomes the person your heart spends the rest of its life searching for.

This is the story of Smayra, a small-town girl who believed in the goodness of people, and John, a young man who had learned to live without anyone to call his own.

They lived in different worlds. They had never met, never held each other's hands, and never looked into each other's eyes.

Yet, somehow, they fell in love.

Not with faces.

Not with wealth.

Not with promises of a perfect life.

They fell in love with words written on paper, with little acts of kindness, and with the beautiful hope that somewhere in this enormous world, there was someone who understood them.

But life had its own plans.

And before bringing them together, fate would test their love in ways neither of them could have imagined.