Everyone needs a second half, even geese.
A cemetery in Iowa had two geese roaming the premises to comfort its grief-stricken visitors.
A therapy animal can work wonders for the heartbroken.
That said, I never expected to see geese playing that role.
Who says dogs are the only ones that get to do that, right?
But these geese have a special story of their own.
The geese were named Blossom and Bud, and they did their job very well until Bud passed away.
Blossom and Bud were just as much a loving pair as the many couples buried here.
But without her mate by her side, Blossom was now a solitary goose.
Blossom seemed like a tough goose at first. The staff working at the memorial park observed her seemingly coping quite well with his loss months after.
However, wounds never really close.
Blossom may have been okay for a while, but living without your loving partner is going to hit you hard sooner or later.
And it just so happened that mating season for geese came around that year. Blossom began instinctively searching for her mate again to no fruition.
Blossom was hopelessly searching for another goose to fill that void in her heart, but there were no other geese there. I never thought I’d see a tragic love story between two geese, but here we are.
It proved too sad for even the staff at Riverside Cemetery, so they helped Blossom out.
There isn’t exactly a Tinder app for geese. Even if there was, I’d imagine it’d be quite hard to swipe right with feathery fingers. Instead, the folks at Riverside Cemetery put up a sort of personal ad on social media for Blossom.
“Lonely, widowed domestic goose seeks life partner for companionship and occasional shenanigans.” read part of the post on Facebook.
Well, like a lot of rom-coms we’ve seen, someone answered Blossom’s request for love.
A local family happened to have a similarly lonely male goose.
His name was Frankie, and Deb Hoyt even called him “Lonely handsome.”
Frankie the goose had also lost his partner. So two geese each searching for their missing second half sounds like the start of a great story, right?
So a meeting was in order.
And the day it was scheduled for happened to be Valentine’s Day. Talk about serendipity, right?
Frankie’s family was sad that the loving guard goose was off to live in another home, but they did want the best for him.
If he’s happier with his new life, who are they to stop him, right?
They were hoping the two geese would hit it off — and they did.
So when’s the movie adaptation of this story coming? I’d watch it.
Blossom and Frankie spent a whole day together and didn’t leave each other’s side. That does seem like love to me!
Maybe next time we see them, they’ll have a flock of goslings to surprise us. Congratulations to this adorable couple!
See how Frankie and Blossom hit it off in the video below!
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