'I was her invisible best friend': Woman texts a wrong number for first-date advice and accidentally makes an anonymous friend, then after years of mysterious camaraderie, she gets invited to the wedding

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jun 16, 2025 4:00 PM EDT

Anonymity has its perks. 

You can say whatever you want without persecution, you can share your honest opinions, and you can get the real-deal down-low from someone without worrying about backlash. That's literally the only reason why people post on Reddit pages like r/AITA or r/AmItheJerk so they can anonymously receive feedback on their lives without looping in an established friend, family member, or significant other on the drama. 

But imagine if you could have the entire Reddit community at your side for all of life's problems? Like a faceless bestie you could send a message for instantaneous advice for all of life's queries. Well, the woman in this next story made a 1 AM mistake on her phone that would not only fulfill this anonymous desire but would forge a friendship that would last a lifetime. 

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  • If only making friends were as easy as sending a text to a wrong number, but this woman in our next tale did just that. After a successful meet-cute with a guy, she scored a first date. However, frantic over what to wear, she sent a text blast to someone she thought was a friend, only to realize later that this person on the other end was their ‘Text Goblin’—a sort of advice-giving fairy godmother who would guide her dating life with ease.

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  • I got a random wrong- number text at 1AM. I answered. A year later, I was in their wedding.
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  • A little over a year ago, I got a text at 1:04 AM: is the green one better or the gold one?? pls answer fast"
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  • No name. No context. Just that.I was half-asleep, but something about it made me laugh. I replied: Green. Always go with the green one."
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  • Two minutes later: OK THANK YOU. i'm freaking out. i think i love him?? and idk if this is a date?? it's like... a maybe- date
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  • I didn't have the heart to say "wrong number," so I just said: "Then wear the green. Look good. Feel better. And maybe-date the h out of it."
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  • She texted back: "You're literally a stranger but i love you. thank you.
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  • And that was it. Or so I thought. Because a week later, she texted again.
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  • "Green was the right call. It was a date. His name's Eli. He smelled like cedar and stress."And I, some random dude who never said she had the wrong number.... texted
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  • back. And we just... kept texting. Every few days. Then every day. For months.She never asked who I was. I never told her. It became this anonymous thread of
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  • support. When things went well, she'd send me updates. When things went badly, I'd hype her up like I was her invisible best friend in the walls. Eventually, she
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  • named me "Text Goblin." Then, one night in November, she sent this: "Okay Goblin. I told him I love him. And he said it
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  • back. I'm so scared. I feel like my heart is too big and soft for this world." I texted back something dumb, like:
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  • "He's lucky to have you. And green was still the right choice." Then I didn't hear from her for two months.
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  • I thought it was over. Until January. "I found out who you are." I froze.
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  • "You used your real Spotify once. That's how I found your playlist. Then your profile." My heart dropped.
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  • "I'm not mad. I actually have a question." "Will you come to my wedding?" "As my Text Goblin."
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  • And that's how I ended up flying to Arizona last month, standing in a room full of strangers, watching a woman I've never met walk down the aisle,
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  • wearing a green ribbon in her hair, and winking at me from across the crowd.We hugged after. She whispered, "Thank you for picking green.
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  • "And I said, "It was always green." I do totally apologize coz i forgot her real name because I was so mesmerized by chaotic
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  • possible chances in the whole world. Still saved in my phone as "Possibly Chaos." Life is weird. But sometimes weird is kind.
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  • EducationalField9... I can see this becoming made for tv movie on hallmark by next spring
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