Craigslist is known for many things, but perhaps the most famous is its Missed Connections section. Amorous city dwellers who couldn't work up the nerve to say something to that cute stranger they were eye-flirting with on the train can post a message detailing the time and place, hoping said stranger will do the same. The messages are generally short and sweet, like, "I was the one in the blue headphones, you were the one in the pink skirt. We both got off at Union Square and I wish I ran after you..." But this post from the Boston Missed Connections board is different, and it's gone viral.
So what's all the fuss about, and why is Wired saying this might be "the first Craigslist ad to win a Pulitzer"? Read it for yourself:
Whether this story is real or not, it's sadness and sweetness certainly took a simple message board to epic new heights. And just in case Nicholas Sparks options it into a novel, and it gets made into a movie, we thought we'd be the first to ask these two important questions:
Who should play the leading man?
Who should play the lost woman?
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