In the weeks before Valentine's Day, CBS News is featuring stories about love that blossomed despite unimaginable odds. We call this series Love, Against All Odds. Millions of people turn to dating apps to look for love. But what one Minnesota couple found was more like an against-all-odds match. Elizabeth Christensen, a mom of two young kids who was recently divorced, matched with a man named Joshua Colbert on the Hinge dating app in April and they immediately started talking, she told CBS News.
The first day they matched on the app, Elizabeth started asking the typical get-to-know questions β like where he grew up β but as Joshua gave her answers, she became more and more shocked. Elizabeth found their class photo β and sure enough, Joshua was in the photo. But that's not where their similarities ended.
Elizabeth was born on September 13, So was Joshua. The pair were born at the same place on the same day β just six hours apart. The coincidence seemed too good to be true β but outside of kindergarten they had never crossed paths, nor did their families.
They had planned on meeting in person for a date the following week, but Joshua was excited and asked Elizabeth to lunch the next day. Elizabeth told her parents and they dug up old home videos that they had digitized.
So it was like, we saw that and were like, no way. Joshua's mom died when he was seven. He said his dad told him to take things "slow and steady" with Elizabeth.
