People Share Their Most Amazing Life “Plot-Twist”

Some moments in life take you completely by surprise, in the best way possible. These people had assumed their lives would be going down one path, when, suddenly, something happens to derail all of those carefully laid plans.

A Happy Little Surprise Around The Corner

>>> “I’d handed in my paperwork to drop out of high school with three months left until graduation to be a plumber. I was convinced to stick it out. Now I’m almost finished up with a Ph.D. in Physics.”–

>>> “My mom had been trying to set me up with a friend’s daughter who I had never met for years. All the while I said no. We ended up meeting on our own and have now been married five years.”–

>>> “I bought a pair of dress pants for an interview for $2 at a thrift store and found $100 in the pocket. That was a good day.”–

>>> “I got asked out by the girl that told me I was too fat to date after I lost over 100 pounds.”–

>>> “This happened early in my life. My mother, while pregnant, was told that her child had an irregular heartbeat so to prepare for the worse. On the day that she was to give birth, they had doctors and everything prepared to assist in the birth of this ‘sick’ child. After she birthed my brother, the doctor turned around and said, ‘Oh crap, there’s another one,’ and that was me. Surprise twins!”–

>>> “My parents split when I was little. I came out to my mum and stepdad when I was 13. I phoned my dad up when I was 16 because it was time. I had to let him know, ‘Dad, I’ve got something to tell you.’

‘Whatever it is, I love you.’

‘I’m gay.’

‘So am I.’

‘What.'”–

>>> “After losing three kids to miscarriage and infertility, my wife and I started the process of an adoption. Days after we sent all the final paperwork off to China, we found out my wife was also expecting. Twins.

I now have three 11-year-olds seven weeks apart in age.”

All His Achievements Weren’t For Nothing

>>> “Although I was at the top of my school when I was 15, my parents were not in a financial situation to send me for further education. I was supposed to do a technical course in work as an AC mechanic or something instead. But then a social worker from our town heard that I topped the school and sponsored all my education until I completed my degree in engineering in electronics and communication. Now I work at one of the major IT company which pays a lot of money, which I never dreamt of! The man runs a charitable trust and sponsors students who cannot afford higher education. I’m part of the trust now.”

“Everyone Kind of Just Assumed I Would Die Any Day After That”

>>> “When I was an 8-year-old, I was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy and some severe heart issues. Everyone kind of just assumed I would die any day after that. Well, eight years later, I was still here and my doctors pretty much gave up on figuring out what was wrong with me, so my parents decided to get a second opinion. We went to the Mayo Clinic, and I was diagnosed with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, something that is easily treated through exercise, the opposite of what my doctors told me to do.

After that, I was just like, ‘Now I have to plan my future.'”

She Just Wanted Acne Medicine, But That Doctor’s Visit Changed Her Life

>>> “Earlier this year, I went to the doctor to get some medication for my acne as my skin had been really bad. For the medication I was going to go on, I had to take a pregnancy test. No worries there, as I was on birth control, or so I thought.

The pregnancy test came back positive, but I was so convinced it was wrong, I honestly didn’t care too much at that point. After a few blood tests to try and see how far along I was, it looked like I was miscarrying. The hormone levels were all over the show and nowhere near where they should be for early pregnancy. The doctor ordered a scan and I went along, fully prepared to see an empty uterus and be told I had miscarried. At the scan, they found that I wasn’t miscarrying and that I was actually 27 weeks and five days. That’s six months pregnant.

Obviously, I was pretty shocked. Honestly, I almost passed out and vomited. I just didn’t know how to process that information. Luckily, my boyfriend was with me and somehow managed to calm me down. We talked about it and decided that neither of us was ready to be parents. Obviously, at that late stage in the pregnancy, there wasn’t a choice of terminating, but we decided we’d put the baby up for adoption.

A week or two later, I woke up with cramps so went down to the ER just to check things out. Sitting in the waiting room, I felt a sensation like my waters breaking, but when I looked down, it was all blood. After being rushed into surgery and multiple blood transfusions later, I woke up to the doctors telling me that I had a little girl and that she was fine.

She was kept in NICU for eight weeks, which gave us enough time to get our heads around everything and decide that we couldn’t give her up. Now she’s a little happy 6-month-old and my life is different!”

This Complicated Teen Romance Is Like Something Out Of A “Soap Opera”

>>> “I have one that is straight out of a soap opera. I was good friends with a guy in high school named John, who was dating a lovely guy named Janni. John was madly in love with him. He carried Janni’s picture around in his wallet, and every time they were together, they were super sweet. Really adorable couple. Then, one day, Janni starts acting strange and distant and doesn’t answer John’s phone calls. Doesn’t spend time with us, the whole works. He flat out broke up with John and broke the poor guy’s heart. I brought a spare t-shirt to school for a few days because my shoulder would be soaked from him crying on it. And then it got even worse.

John called me one afternoon after school and begged me to come over because he needed a friend. When I got there, he told me that Janni had been killed in a car accident, and he was absolutely devastated all over again. I went with him to the funeral a few days later for moral support, and he was just broken. He spent a couple of weeks just moping and being depressed. And here comes the plot twist.

He gets a call from Janni. He had a twin brother that we never knew about who was apparently a big troublemaker and had been sent off to boarding school. When he’d been home to visit last, they’d swapped places for some reason that I never found out. Either simply for a laugh or for some other reason I never knew, but they did. His twin was the one that had been avoiding John and ‘broke up’ with him, and he had been drinking and doing hardcore stuff before he got into the accident that killed him. Janni had been off at boarding school, so he wasn’t able to make it back to the funeral. When he did get home, he had to work up his nerve for a few days to tell his parents what they had done, which led to them realizing that the child they thought was dead is actually alive and vice versa. That led to some fun family complications, not the least of which being obituary retractions, headstone replacement and lots of screaming apparently.

Meanwhile, John and Janni had a whirlwind romance afterwards in a giddy fit of reunited bliss, but it fizzled out after a month or so because John was furious after the reality sank in at what Janni had done without telling him and letting him be so miserable all that time, not to mention letting him think that he’d died.

I was the third party observer in all this, but to this day it’s probably the most unbelievable thing that’s ever happened in my life.”

They Thought They Were Losing A Child

>>> “My wife was pregnant with our third and last (planned) child. The couple previous ultrasounds only showed a single baby. There was only a single heartbeat. We ended up in the ER as she was ‘miscarrying.’ The nurse cried because ‘the fetus was not viable’ so there was nothing to be done. It was horrible. One of the first times I felt completely helpless as an adult. It turns out the miscarry was actually her body making room for twins. The girls are five years old now. We went from ‘losing’ one to gaining two.”

They Always Were Like Peas In a Pod

>>> “I had two cats. I adopted them at different times, and they were the same age or close to.

They both got sick and had to be taken to the vet. He took blood tests on both of them, said he noticed similarities, and then ran them against each other. I don’t understand what exactly he did, but it revealed that they were related. Yep, like brother and sister. They were adopted years apart, one as a kitten, and one a couple years later. Barely look alike. Honestly couldn’t believe it.”

She Found Some Surprising Familial Information, But Her Family Didn’t Change

>>> “I found my adoption papers in the family strong box when I was 19, despite having been told my whole life that my parents were my biological parents. Turns out my parents planted it for me to find. I found the certificate stating that my dad was my adoptive legal guardian. My mom was my real mom, which is why I had pictures of her with me at the hospital when I was born. They were able to get pregnant via a male donor.

I always wondered why I didn’t look at ALL like my dad, but I look like a carbon copy of my mom. Apparently, this was a huge relief to her as I grew up because the ENTIRE FAMILY knew except me and the fear of having a huge, loud, Irish family letting something like that slip was pretty serious. I’m shocked they managed.

They were never going to tell me, but they decided that for an accurate medical history, I should know that I don’t have my dad’s predisposition to heart disease.

My dad cried when he told me because he was so worried that I suddenly wouldn’t love him anymore, as if my entire childhood was a lie or something. I laughed and told him, of course, he was my dad and always would be. It brought us closer. But it also explained a lot of things in my childhood, like why I didn’t look anything like him, why I didn’t need glasses when my parents were blind.”

For Years, He Just Assumed He Had One Foot In The Grave

>>> “My brother was gay and a flirt in San Francisco in the ’80s. For a long time, he just assumed he had HIV, and it was just a matter of time. He avoided taking an HIV test once they were developed, though, out of fear of finding out.

In the mid-90s, a boyfriend finally talked him into an HIV test, and he discovered he was HIV-negative. It absolutely shattered him. Obviously, he’s glad he’s negative, but after years of assuming he’d be dead soon, he had to do some serious reevaluating.

He’s married to that boyfriend now.”

Her New Boss Had Always Been Determined To Hate Her

>>> “I was transferred to a new division. Within a few months, my new supervisor and I hated each other. She was incompetent, and I spoke up when she screwed up. She made my life a nightmare and finally decided to give me a job that she thought would make me quit.

I packed up my stuff in a box and asked for help moving to my new desk, she said she didn’t have anyone to spare. I was carrying my box and didn’t see a spill on the floor, ironically, just outside her office. I slipped, fell, and broke my knee.

I am on permanent disability, legitimately, received a huge settlement, lifetime healthcare, retired early. She was demoted, then fired, partially due to the way she handled my case.

This all happened a few years ago. Recently when my husband and I were grocery shopping, I saw her in the store. I didn’t want to see her, but my husband caught her eye and gave her a big ‘thumbs up.’ She looked furious.”

It Was A Matter Of Luck That Her Grandma Took A Shining To That Soldier

>>> “As a young woman, my grandma worked at a humble bakery in a small town in Australia. American soldiers were stationed in her town as they readied for deployment in the Pacific War of WWII. One day, a soldier from NYC came in and tried to order something, not on the menu. His accent was very thick, and she (being a Scottish immigrant) could not understand him. She was embarrassed but kept trying to assist him. After a couple minutes like this, the soldier got very impatient and started cussing and insulting my grandmother, the bakery, and the town.

Well, my grandmother, a proud woman of small stature, but surprising strength, came around the counter and punched that man hard in the chest (I’m told she broke one of his ribs, but that seems extreme). She knocked him over. Fellow soldiers lifted the stunned soldier off the ground and back to the base where they told their CO the story. The CO panicked about ruining relations with the town and pointed to the nearest man. He asked where he was from (Illinois), and hearing no accent, sent him back to the bakery to apologize on behalf of the army. The man did a wonderful job and made a very good impression. And he went back to that town after the war. And he married my grandma and they lived happily ever after. They eventually moved back to the States, but she refused to ever visit NYC.”

She Never Thought She’d Win Out Over Her Cousin, “Miss Socialite”

>>> “I was a little goth girl in high school and secretly had a crush on an upperclassman who was a wrestler and did cross country. My cousin, who was Miss Socialite, also had a crush on him and hit on him constantly. He and I were complete opposites. We rode the same bus, but I was pretty sure I was invisible to him. So one day, his friends started picking on me, he got up from the front of the bus, moved to where his buddies and I were, sat down next to me, threw his arm around me, and they stopped. This ticked off my cousin as he and I become friends and he constantly ignored her advances.

She later went on to have me suspended by saying I had a bomb and was going to blow up the school because she didn’t like this or that her actual boyfriend and I were close friends. Getting suspended ruined every friendship I had, except the one with my/my cousin’s crush. He and I remained friends even after he moved away, and then ‘closer’ friends when he moved back. Today, he and I are going on four years together, we bought a house and car, had a daughter, and are working on plans to build our next and probably permanent home. Ten years later, my cousin is still greener than a Granny Smith apple.”

Their Timing Was Just A Little Bit Off

>>> “I made friends with this guy on a writer’s message board back in 2009. He lived across the country and was going through a divorce. I was five years into a relationship. I left the board due to personal issues, and we lost touch.

About a year later, a couple months after my relationship had catastrophically ended, I went back to the message board to say hi to friends. He was there, and we began talking on G-chat regularly. His divorce had just been finalized. We decided to meet up in Chicago, a convenient midpoint between our cities. I remember half-joking to my friends that he would be the perfect man for me if he just lived within driving distance. Before the meeting, though, I met another man. It got serious quick. I broke the Chicago plans.

We stayed in touch for a couple years, as friends. He got back together with his ex-wife. I moved in with my boyfriend, and we bought major appliances and a cat together. After not hearing from my message board friend for a while, I discovered that he’d deleted his e-mail and social media accounts. I tried to contact him via his band’s Facebook page but never got a response.

Earlier this year, my relationship ended out of nowhere. One day we were making plans to remodel our kitchen, and the next he told me that he didn’t see a future with me. A couple weeks after moving into my own place, I was browsing Facebook and saw someone familiar pop up in my ‘people you may know.’ It was my message board friend.

I IMed him right away. We spent a while catching up. It turned out that his wife had left him for another man only a couple weeks prior, a mere month after they had gotten remarried. He was shocked to learn that I was newly single as well. We spent a lot of time commiserating and supporting one another. After a couple weeks, we decided to pick up where we left off in 2010 and met up in Chicago. We didn’t have any expectations for what would happen, just that we wanted to meet in person, even if it was just the one time.

Well, after spending a weekend together, we both knew we had to see each other again. Suddenly, 1,300 miles didn’t seem so far. We’ve been together for five months so far, seeing each other about once a month, with tentative plans for me to move to his city next year. It all seems too perfect.”

They Were Worried That Bill’s New Fiancee Was Hiding Something

>>> “Bill was a self-made millionaire by the time he was 18 years old. That was in the mid-80s. He has been one of my best and certainly most influential friends. About 25 years ago, he married a girl that I did not like or trust. I told him as much, but he married her anyways. A few years ago, she ran off with a guy she met at a ROLLER-SKATING rink. He apparently wooed her with his zooming around or whatever, and Bill was single again. He met a new girl and insisted I meet her. Bill remembered that I had not approved of his ex.

We met for lunch at one of those awful buffets. This girl was beautiful. She used English like a scalpel. She was working on her Ph.D. She was awesome. But I noticed little things about her. She had obviously been to finishing school. Then why did she have fingernail polish on her cuticles and a dress from a 1985 resale rack? There were a lot of details that didn’t add up, and Bill was getting ready to marry her. I told Bill that I thought she was hiding something, but I didn’t care. This gal was high class and high bred. I told him she was great. Bill didn’t meet her parents until the wedding. It was at their beach house in Destin. It turns out that my friend hadn’t told his new bride of his formidable wealth.

BUT. She had been hiding the fact that her parents are legit billionaires. Bill deserves someone like her.”

His Bad Marriage Strained Him For Years, But One Night On The Town Changed Everything

>>> “I married a girl who implied she would kill herself if she was without me. I hopped on a cavalcade of abuse and infidelity for ten years, punctuated with her stints in an institution. I was so stressed out by her that I would get heart palpitations before she came home from any of these stays. Luckily, I was bailed out when she fell in love with her best friend and took off. I filed for divorce, which took another year because my spiteful ex wanted to punish me by delaying her signature. Borderline Personality Disorder is not fun.

There is a happy ending, however. The divorce finally went through, and I decided to take a little in-town vacation. I got a nice hotel room and treated myself to an elaborate dinner. When I had finished my fantastic meal, I gushed to the waiter that it was the best I’d ever eaten. She told me that the chef was available if I wanted to meet her. Being the Irish gabber that I am, I gladly accepted.

A few minutes later, the chef came to my table, and we had a love at first sight moment. I’m not even sure what we said to each other, if anything, at first. I asked if she was free after her shift, and we have been together ever since.”