Judy and Jerry Griffin have had the kind of love story that most people only dream of. They were both just 22 years-old when they met at the Woodstock music festival in 1969, and they’ve been together ever since.

Judy was on the way to the music festival with her friends when their car broke down 90 miles from Woodstock, so they decided to hitchhike.

“I was just thinking, ‘Damn, now we can’t go,’ and we were dying to,” Judy recalled. “Then Jerry and his friends pulled up. I stuck my head in and I saw that there was a woman in the car. I’d never hitchhiked before, but I figured, ‘Well, since there was a woman, it was fairly safe, and I probably should just get in the car.’”

“I thought, ‘Okay, this is definitely unusual,’” Jerry remembered. “‘We just picked up this really cute girl. And I’m going to Woodstock and I’ve got a tent and she doesn’t.’”

After getting into Jerry’s friend’s 1967 VW Beetle, the whole group began talking. An hour and a half later, Judy told Jerry that they had a special connection, and the rest was history.

“By the time we got out of the car and set up camp, we were into each other,” Judy said, “and we basically were together from that point on.”

Judy and Jerry have been inseparable ever since, but the only downside to their love story was that they did not have any photos of their time together at Woodstock. Though they had each brought cameras with them, neither had taken photos. For fifty years, the couple tried to find evidence of their time at Woodstock, but they were never able to find anything.

That all changed this summer when they were watching the PBS documentary Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation and saw footage of themselves, much to their surprise!

“For 50 years we’ve been looking for a picture of ourselves, and out of the blue one shows up,” Jerry said. “We’d known each other less than 48 hours when that was taken.”

Find out more about this in the video below.