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Vanessa! Oh my God! Chrissy Teigen just mentioned you on Twitter!” I paused in my monologue to look at Brent. “Really? For what?” Getting mentioned by a celebrity wasn’t exactly unheard of for me, but I didn’t know her. Brent was staring at his phone and he didn’t answer. “Well? What did she say?” “Oh my God. Oh my God oh my God oh my God.” He jumped off his stool and shoved his phone into my hand. “LOOK!” I read the tweet. Can someone please put this poor man out of his misery and tell him where to find Vanessa Price? She’d used the Where’s Vanessa Price hashtag and retweeted an article titled “This Man Is Searching the Globe for His Lost Love and You Won’t Believe Why!” My soul. Left. My body. I clicked on the article and held my breath, hoping to God it wasn’t Monett Missouri Guy. It wasn’t. Adrian Copeland is on a worldwide quest to find the woman who got away—and chances are you know who she is. For weeks famous YouTuber Vanessa Price had been teasing her viewers with stories of a handsome, mysterious love interest. We now know this man is a prestigious St. Paul attorney who won’t stop until he finds her. Price is known for her passionate pursuit for a cure to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS, the disease that inspired the Ice Bucket Challenge of 2014. Price lost her sister to the illness and in a recent final farewell video, Price revealed she may have the early-onset symptoms of the disease. She announced that she was shutting down her popular channel, Social Butterfly, and in a heart-wrenching goodbye, alluded that her potential diagnosis was too much for her beau, Adrian, and that she was leaving him. According to Copeland, they had a disagreement about her choosing to not seek treatment and the couple broke up. “I made a horrible mistake, and I lost the love of my life,” Copeland said in a viral video he made three weeks ago, pleading for information on her whereabouts. Copeland, who is in the process of adopting Price’s infant niece, said he struggled with a lifelong fear of flying and had to spend a month in intensive therapy to overcome his phobia and deal with the feelings about Price’s potential diagnosis. He’s since followed leads all over the globe, baby in tow, in his attempt to locate Price, who has gone underground. We can’t say if she knows he’s looking, but Copeland has made one thing very clear: “I’ll never stop looking. And when I find her, I’m spending the rest of her life letting her know how much I love her.
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