There’s the Red Sox coming back from down 0-3 to the Yankees. There’s Taylor Swift re-releasing every single one of her albums in spite of Scooter Brawn. Then there’s the story of Michelle Agroskin and Ryan Phillips.

Raise your hand if you’ve been personally victimized by dating app algorithms 🙋‍♀️

Anyone under the age of 40 (no shade to those older), I don’t need to tell you how bleak it is out there on social dating apps.

Not for Michelle and Ryan.

“Something tells me our mothers would be happy about this match.”

That’s the line from Ryan that started it all.

These two connected on The League in the spring of 2019 and quickly arranged a first date at Peacekeeper, a hoppin' bar in Lower Nob Hill, San Francisco.

2 dates later and on a hungover flight back from his 5-year high school reunion, Ryan got the infamous text (below).

That could’ve been the end of this story, but it wasn’t.

Fortunately, both Ryan and Michelle couldn’t pass up an opportunity to keep tabs on who the other was hanging out with, so the two continued to follow each other on social media.

(In recent months, we’ve revisited the instagram direct messages we exchanged between Spring and Fall 2019. To our surprise it was Michelle who often initiated conversations)

A few sushi dates and a cirque de soleil outing later, Ryan had turned things around. Michelle was starting to fall for him.

By the end of December, Michelle and Ryan were all but official, and with Ryan’s mom coming to San Francisco in mid-January, time was of the essence for Ryan to ask Michelle to formally be his girlfriend.

On a cozy evening at a french bistro in Fidi, Ryan raised his glass to finally ask the question, but to his surprise, he was interrupted just before he could get the words of his lips.

“Ryan, I need to get something off my chest.” Ryan’s heart skips a beat. “I don’t feel comfortable meeting your parents unless we’re official.”

“Well, Michelle… if you let me finish this toast I don’t think that will be a problem anymore!”

On January 8, 2020, Ryan and Michelle’s relationship officially began.

Years went by. Covid came and passed. We went through ups and downs. Our relationship grew stronger because of it.

We moved in together. We moved to New York together. We signed our first lease together. We learned what we loved about one another. We became each other’s best friends.

And on July 12, 2024, under the guise of heading into San Francisco to meet up with their friends, Ryan proposed to Michelle at Crissy Field with the San Francisco bay in the background, surrounded by their closest friends.

The greatest comeback of all time was complete.