Tinder has stepped in to play cupid for a couple whose missed connections were, quite frankly, getting ridiculous.
Josh Avsec, 22, and Michelle Arendas, 21, both final year students at Kent State University, Ohio, hit it off on the dating app nearly three years ago, but had still never actually met.
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