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Blake Walsh had no sooner sat down in her first-year contracts class at IU McKinney on Monday morning, August 28, when her husband started trying to reach her on her cell phone.

Their story had gone viral. Media outlets, including Inside Edition, Entertainment Weekly, cafemom.com, Rolling Stone, People and Ellen, were calling.

It all started over the weekend, when Blake’s husband, Kevin Walsh, replied to a thread on Quora, a question-and-answer website, asking: “What is the one moment in your life you thought could only happen in a movie?”

Kevin used the thread to tell the couple’s story. How they met at summer camp when they were 13. How they fell out of touch, until five years later when he was a senior in high school and so depressed that he was planning suicide. 

According to his Quora post, “Somewhere between 5 and 10 seconds before I would have committed suicide, my phone rang,” he wrote. “I checked the caller ID - I couldn't die not knowing. It was a number I didn't recognize, so I picked up and it was her.

“I asked her what was up and she said she just felt like she had to call me. At that point it had been a year since we had spoken, and at that moment she just had to call. Long story short, she pried, I spilled the beans and she talked me out of it. I mean she literally said ‘What? Don't do that.’ And that was that.”

The pair stayed in touch after that, and married in 2016.

By Sunday evening, the original post had been viewed more than 30,000 times and re-posted to Instagram and Twitter. And the next morning, the media calls started. Fortunately, a sympathetic law school staff member found an empty room for Blake and Kevin to field questions from Inside Edition, which ran the story on August 29. You can see the interview at http://www.insideedition.com/headlines/25212-man-proposes-to-woman-10-years-after-she-interrupted-his-suicide-thanks-for-saving-my.

“It’s surreal, but it’s also fun to revel in our relationship,” she says.

Also slightly ironic, she adds, because she once sought fame. A graduate of Belmont University, where she earned both bachelor and master’s degrees in classical performance, Blake worked professionally as a classical singer and performed on the Grammy Award-winning album “Songs of Innocence and Experience” released in 2005. She also has a master’s degree in vocal pedagogy from Vanderbilt University.

Law school represents an opportunity for a career change after the demands of the music business, Blake says.

She remembers their story differently—that he called her and she, despite not knowing it was Kevin calling, answered her cell phone—but believes their story is a good reminder that you never know the impact you can have on another person’s life.

“Our story highlights the importance of friends who support each other,” she says, adding that Kevin has been so supportive of her law school plans that he even took the LSAT with her. “When someone calls, just pick up the phone.”

Read the original thread at https://www.quora.com/What-is-one-moment-in-your-life-you-thought-could-only-happen-in-a-movie