Kate Latkovic is proving that sometimes love plays out just like it does in the movies.

Recently, the 25-year-old shared the story of how her parents, Tom and Kim, met, and it had such Before Sunrise vibes that you almost wonder whether Richard Linklater found inspiration for his 1995 romantic film in their story somehow.

A chance encounter nearly cut short

Just as the movie portrays traveling strangers Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) forging an instant connection in Vienna, Tom and Kim shared a similarly fateful meet-cute one night while backpacking separately through Europe.

The problem: They woke up the next day with no way to contact each other (it was the mid-’90s, after all), and they were each headed to different cities. 

A bold plan that paid off big time

However, Tom wasn’t ready to give up. To give himself the best chance of being seen, he sought out a street........

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