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Everyday Encounter: A pair of teens gets to know each other over lunch at The Boardwalk

Liat Holden and Hunter Cristo are seen Aug. 6 behind Rustic Bakery at The Boardwalk shopping center after meeting earlier that day at the Strawberry Village Safeway. The two 17-year-olds decided to have lunch together after striking up a conversation in the grocery store. (Tyler Callister / The Ark)
Liat Holden and Hunter Cristo are seen Aug. 6 behind Rustic Bakery at The Boardwalk shopping center after meeting earlier that day at the Strawberry Village Safeway. The two 17-year-olds decided to have lunch together after striking up a conversation in the grocery store. (Tyler Callister / The Ark)

Hunter Cristo and Liat Holden are sharing lunch behind Rustic Bakery on Aug. 6, soon after the two 17-year-olds met randomly in the Strawberry Village Safeway.

 

“She was super bold,” Hunter says. “She just came up to me in the grocery store.”

 

Liat says she noticed Hunter’s “Program X Lacrosse” T-shirt.

 

“I thought he looked familiar,” she says. “And I wanted to know where he got his shirt.”

 

The two found themselves talking for so long they decided to grab lunch together, heading over to The Boardwalk shopping center to eat their salad and sushi behind Rustic Bakery.


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