A stranger’s incredible reaction to a same-sex marriage proposal has melted the internet’s ice cold heart. 
 
 Jessica Rodriguez proposed to her long-term girlfriend, Chelsea Miller, this weekend at an art gallery in Chicago. 
 
 Rodriguez had arranged to have the public proposal captured on camera, but she could never have planned the epic reaction from an older woman who was sitting nearby. 
 
 The woman, who was sat in a chair reading when the proposal took place, was snapped holding her heart and gasping delightedly. ||||| A proposal photo blew up across the internet on Saturday thanks to a happy bystander pictured in the photo's background. 
 
 Carlos Jair, a Twitter user from Houston, Texas, shared a photo of the moment his sister proposed to her girlfriend at the Art Institute of Chicago. In his tweet, he drew attention to the delighted older woman smiling at the happy couple. 
 
 My sister proposed to her GF today and look at that older woman's reaction pic.twitter.com/ifFl3mJNAr — Carlos🖤Shook (@AreYouShook) December 18, 2016 
 
 His sister Jessica tells news.com.au that she and the photographer were looking over photos taken the day of the proposal when they noticed the woman's sweet reaction. 
 
 "It really made that photo even more special," she told news.com.au. 
 
 Carlos's tweet garnered more than 276,000 likes, more than 89,000 retweets and even drew a congratulatory note from Fifty Shades of Grey author E.L. James. 
 
 Everything about this photo FTW. #LoveIsLove Congratulations to your sister and her GF @AreYouShook https://t.co/F45DE74PuG — E L James (@E_L_James) December 18, 2016 
 
 A few hours after Carlos posted the photo, Jessica shared the couple's proposal video. 
 
 Our Proposal Video at The Art Institute of Chicago #LoveIsLove @areyoushook https://t.co/rGP0PV3D2f — Jess R (@Its_Jess_Rdgz) December 18, 2016 
 
 She's also asked for Twitter's help in finding the woman who made their photo such a massive success. 
 
 I think someone knows the woman in our photo. If you do please give her our thanks! She made our photo much more special 😍❤️😍❤️😍❤️#FramingIt — Jess R (@Its_Jess_Rdgz) December 19, 2016 ||||| This crawl of online resources of the 114th US Congress was performed on behalf of The United States National Archives & Records Administration (NARA).
– Sometimes it's the honest, unedited reaction to a moment that gets the greatest applause. Such is the case in a proposal photo now being widely shared. Carlos Jair took several pictures of his sister Jessica Rodriguez proposing to her long-term girlfriend Chelsea Miller at the Art Institute of Chicago last weekend. It was a dressy affair, a knee bent, a ring presented, people cheered—but in looking at his photos later, Jair and his sister noticed one image in particular, which captures a third woman's reaction in the background, reports Mashable. Her mouth is wide open, her right hand reaching toward her heart. She looks utterly delighted. Says Rodriguez: "It really made that photo even more special." Jair posted the photo to Twitter with the caption: "My sister proposed to her GF today and look at that older woman's reaction." It's been retweeted more than 105,000 times and liked more than 330,000. A video of the proposal posted to YouTube has more than 50,000 views, and only eight thumbs down. Reactions range from "most stylish couple ever" to "I'm crying" and even "this gave me life." Many noted the "lady in pink" in particular, with one woman writing: "The lady in the pink represents us, the silent and loving majority of Sr Citizens. We are there for you. Congratulations." And the Huffington Post summed it up this way: The third woman's reaction "melted the internet’s ice cold heart." (See what happened when two nuns fell in love.)