I’m not sure how much I believe the stories I hear about how people “just knew” they’d found The One, but a beam of light shining down upon you from the literal heavens as you take your engagement photos? Now that’s a sign I can get behind!!

Faith, 21, saw this very thing happen on a recent trip to Yosemite National Park. A professional photographer was taking what looks like some cutesy-wootsy engagement portraits when Faith says she and her boyfriend stumbled upon them while hiking over from a different vantage point. From where Faith was standing (unclear if the professional also had this view), a miraculous, would-sound-like-a-chorus-of-angels beam of light was hitting the couple where they stood, gazing into each other’s sun-speckled eyes.

She did the only thing she could: whip out her iPhone 6 and snap a photo before walking away. This was on May 14, 2019, and now, a little more than a month later, Faith says she regrets not immediately going up to the happy couple and showing them what she’d captured. “My boyfriend told me to go up to them on the day and ask for their number, but I would’ve felt really awkward interrupting their professional photographer with my iPhone 6 photo,” Faith says.

So then, she did the only next thing she could do: post the photo online in a tweet, hoping for some miracle of virality to bring her picture and the couple together, in the happy union they so deserve.

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So far, the photo’s subjects remain at large. Faith thought she found them but unfortunately, it was, as she says, “a false alarm” and the search is still very much on. A few people who replied to her original tweet lent their fingers and attention spans to stalking the Yosemite location tag on Instagram (beside the point, but I highly recommend this—Yosemite is beautiful), but as of publishing time, the couple still doesn’t seem to have been connected with Faith’s iPhone masterpiece. She remains dedicated to the search.

“I want to find them just to give them the picture,” Faith says. “I didn’t think it would blow up like this. I just know if someone ever took a picture of me like that, I would want it.”

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Hannah writes about health, sex, and relationships for Cosmopolitan, and you can follow her on Twitter and Instagram. Her work can also be found in the Cut, Jezebel, and Texas Monthly.