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Couple gets huge surprise from Harry Styles after he took a photo of them during chance meeting

"As promised, hope you guys had a great trip. H."

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Harry Styles shared photo he took with fan Jess and sent it to her Instagram DM.

Harry Styles is a man of his word. The "Watermelon Sugar" singer, 31, shocked two fans he met during a trip to Rome back in March 2025 with the surprise of a lifetime.

Styles snapped a photo of fan Jess (@jesshehehe123) and her boyfriend Ted on his digital camera while out exploring the city, then asked for Ted's Instagram handle. The couple also took a selfie with him. She never expected to truly hear from the singer...until she got a request from him in her DMs nearly two months later.

"message request from Harry Styles is ridiculous #help," she captioned the video.

@jesshehehe123

message request from Harry Styles is ridiculous #help

To her surprise, Styles followed through and sent her the photo that he took on his camera of the couple. On TikTok, she shared her reaction. "guys. wtf. Harry Styles sent the picture."

In the video, Jess keeps viewers waiting to reveal exactly what the DM said. In a screenshot of the message, Styles wrote, "As promised, hope you guys had a great trip. H."

On Instagram, Jess shared a carousel of photos from her trip to Rome with Ted, including details of how she met Styles. "a sequence of events (that i will never shut up about)," she captioned the post.

In it, she documented that she and Ted had rented a Surrey bicycle and were biking through the city when she spotted Styles. They snapped a selfie with him, and Styles also took their photo.

@jesshehehe123

i genuinely don’t feel like i’ll ever recover what do i do now

Jess also shared more details about the interaction with Styles on TikTok, and how they patiently waited for him to send the photo through. In another post from March, Jess shared on TikTok that she doubted Styles would ever get in touch. She wrote, "Harry Styles took a photo of me on his digital camera in Rome, took my boyfriends insta name, and he never sent it over."

And in another video, she noted that she'd had "11 days of foot tapping" waiting for Styles to send the photo. "girls pls can everyone tell harry styles to hurry up and send over the digital camera pic that he took of me," she wrote.

@jesshehehe123

11 days of foot tapping

Her waiting paid off, and Styles was a man of his word. In an interview with PEOPLE, Jess said, "Harry was genuinely lovely."

Jess was asked by one viewer on TikTok, "How did you even react when you got the notification!? 🤣" And she replied, "screamed the house down."

The interaction had Styles fans going nuts over his integrity. "I thought he’d at least be in the picture omg he really just took the picture FOR you," one commented. And another added, "And the thought that HE DIDNT FORGET ABOUT IT!!! he CHOSE to take the picture and he CHOSE to send it TWO MONTHS LATER and he didn’t even forget 🥹 warms my heart." Another viewer commented, "I’d be insufferable and that would 100% be my whole personality 😂! Also - the pic is so cute haha ☺️," and Jess replied, "has been for the last 2 months hahahahaha!!!"

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He's divorced. But he's celebrating his anniversary anyway in this viral Facebook post.

When Connie and Jeff Johnson’s 25th would-be wedding anniversary rolled around this year, Jeff decided to celebrate.

He posted this photo on Facebook with a message:

Photo used with Jeff and Connie's permission.

"Happy 25th anniversary to my partner in the greatest people-making co-parenting partnership in the history of the universe. At least we got that right!"

"They hadn’t acknowledged their anniversary ever for the past 12 years since the divorce, then seeing his post on Facebook was so heart-warming," their daughter, Rachael, said.

Despite their divorce, Jeff wanted to recognize the positive aspects of their partnership, 25 years in.

"We weren’t right for each other to be married, but that doesn’t mean we still don’t cooperate. We still did a great job raising our kids and I wanted to celebrate getting that right," he said.

His post received 50+ Likes on Facebook from friends and family saying things like "very proud of you!" among others.

Because Connie and Jeff’s romantic relationship didn’t work out, they made sure that raising their children did.

"They took care of my brother and myself while being able to keep it all together. They were able to help us regardless if they weren’t helping themselves," Rachael said.

Both of them agreed that because they share the two people the love most, their children, Rachael and David, they had to cooperate.

"Once you care about somebody, you don’t stop caring once your relationship changes. I wish more divorced couples could do that, if not that then for the sake of their kids," Connie said.

Although the American Psychological Association states that 40-50% of marriages result in divorce, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that divorce rates in the United States have dropped 25% between 2014 and 2000.

Many relationships have the potential to end up like Connie and Jeff’s, which is why their story is so hopeful.

What lies beneath this Facebook post isn’t merely a celebration of a co-parenting partnership. It’s a statement about continuing to care for the people you love regardless of the circumstances.

"When my parents know that they need to come together and be a team for us, they do it. When we need to come together, we do," Rachael said.

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This man spent years doodling the things he loves about his wife.

Love is a feeling that's hard to define — so Andrew Hou found a charming way around having to define it.

The artist, who lives in Seoul, Korea, says he has never considered himself to be good with words, especially when it comes to expressing his feelings. That all became increasingly evident to him in 2010, when he was having a hard time communicating his feelings to his then-girlfriend (now wife), Kate.

So he turned to what he knew best: art.

Andrew used doodling to find just the right thing to say.

All images from Andrew Hou, used with permission.

"I was never good with words, so making silly, sappy doodles was my way to workaround the problem," Andrew told Upworthy. "During work, I'd pretend to be working and create these tiny doodles and send [them] to her via the phone."

Best text message ever? Possibly.

Andrew's doodles started off as a personal project between him and Kate, but after a friend posted some of them on Twitter, he realized how much they resonated with complete strangers. He decided to share them more widely. And in 2011, HJ-Story was born.

HJ-Story, based off of Kate's initials in Korean, is a series about the little moments of life and love.

The drawings reflect his relationship with Kate, but he hopes that they bring an extra bit of happiness to the world. Five years later, he's still going strong with them.

Here are 17 drawings (out of many!) that show their story.

1. There are times they can't be together.


2. And he's really patient about it.


3. But sometimes he's not so patient.


4. He always wants her to feel safe and protected. 

  


5. She brings him to life at just the right moment...


6. ...even when she can't be there in person.


7. He appreciates their differences.

"I always try to not create an illustration just for the sake of making a regular update, but when an idea of a genuine moment or event or thought pops up, I try to draw it," Andrew says.

8. Together, he knows they can make it through the big things.


9. But it's the little ones that really get him through.


10. There are life's proud moments.


11. And the overwhelming ones.


12. And the times he says the wrong things...


13. ...and tries to make them right.


14. But at the end of the day, he always feels lucky.

"Love stuck me like lightning. 7 billion people in the world and we found each other."

15. It's easy to forget that the little things matter a lot, like that time they saw the movie "Thor."


16. Or for all the times she lets him think he can sing.


17. HJ-Story reminds us that love isn't just one feeling or moment.

Andrew says he strives for HJ-Story to act as a reminder to both himself and Kate of the little events and memories during their years together and how they should always treasure and continue to remember the little moments of love.


Love is a collection of moments that grow over time.

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