Boston Marathon Kissing Mystery Solved
BOSTON (CBS) -- It started as a dare from her daughters and blossomed into a nationwide search for a mystery kisser.
Now, the wife of a random man smooched by a Boston Marathon runner from Tennessee has come forward.
The Wellesley Townsman reports that the mystery man's wife sent runner Barbara Tatge a letter and photos of her husband's clothes to prove he's the kisser. The wife said all the attention has been fun, but the couple wants to remain anonymous.
The wife of the man from #BostonMarathon mystery kiss has come forward. What she had to say: http://t.co/yAe6zlnHBJ pic.twitter.com/R62aZcOWXK
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"We all thought this story was hilarious because it is just like my husband to do that," the man's wife said in her letter, according to The Townsman. "It was one of many memorable stories from a great weekend in Boston."
Tatge was running the marathon for the first time, looking to start a new chapter in her life after a recent divorce and beating cancer.
The women of Wellesley College are known to give kisses to runners, but her daughters dared her to do something else.
"They dared me to kiss a good looking guy along the course. And that's exactly what I did," Tatge told WBZ-TV.
A photo of the kiss was snapped, and the story went viral as Tatge and her daughters tried to find the man. She had told WBZ she thought the kiss may have been the prelude to something greater.
"I believe in fate and it was a nice kiss and he kissed me again and he yelled out for me to call him," she said.
Tatge said she hopes all the media buzz didn't make the man uncomfortable.
"Moving forward I will revert to only kissing single men," Tatge told The Townsman.