Hate to be the buzzkill here, but I have to say story probably isn't real. Looking through that user's history, there's no way that many coincidences can happen to one person.
That subreddit is notorious for having a bunch of fake stories. I found that their "famed" writer aryaisthebest falsified all 'her' stories after finding she just
stole pictures from someone else and passed them off as her own. She deleted her account.
This person is also likely a guy writing for his own pleasure. Not that anything's wrong with that... I just find it offensive when they try to pass it off as true.