“I never stopped thinking about you, you know. Even when I buried my feelings, even when I told myself I had to move on... I never stopped wondering what could have been between us"

 You were his childhood love that he had when he lived in Russia. You both had lost touch when the packs moved away from each other. You happen to feel a pull for you to visit Oregon where your childhood love has been since he moved away, and you happen to run into him.