love is stored in the kitty cat

So, I'm at a party chatting with this guy. he says he's not from the states and I guess correctly that he's from Sweden (he gave me northern Europe as a hint) I joke about trying to guess which city (I only know one city in Sweden), but he says the town he comes from only has like a few hundred people in it, it's basically in the polar circle.

Conversation moves on a little and this song comes on, he says, "I know a guy from my hometown that played the drums and he did a cover of this song. I had a huge crush on him when we were growing up." I nod along bc I've never heard the song before. Then he says, "Yeah and then he became an actor and he plays a gay character in this Swedish show, but he's straight irl"

I'm like, hold up, what's the show called? (I was thinking it might be SKAM bc i forgot it's Norwegian)

And he says, "Oh it's a Swedish show, you've probably never heard of it. It's called Beartown."

And i say calmly (i was not calm)

LIKE THE BOOK??

and he says, "Yeah you've heard of it?" (I'm reading it right now)

and he tells me:

"Yeah the book is based off my hometown.

I'm really surprised you're reading it."

I say, after picking my jaw off the ground, "I'm an ice hockey fan. That's why I'm reading it."

He laughs and says that I'd love his hometown, cause they're crazy about hockey.

And I'm just like... yeah man, they wrote a whole book about it (like, three of them).

And then he tells me,

The guy I had a crush on played Benji, you know, the gay one.

Like ok, there's been some weird coincidences in my life so far, but this one is the weirdest. And, I don't think I could go to bed tonight without someone knowing lol.