The Cantúas

We met on a dating app, Bumble. He swiped right, I swiped right, and we settled on a first date at Forever! Ice Cream Shop (the foreshadow was real). We shared laughs and stories and ended the night with tacos and questions: is something happening here, is there romance in the air, do I have onion breath? Alberto was finishing medical school in Galveston, and I was finishing my occupational therapy degree in Mission. Sadly, we decided the distance wouldn’t work… and then proceeded to go on dates every time he was in town. Unsure if it was fate, the decision of two individual souls, or a little bit of both, we continued our dating escapade, long-distance and all. A few days turned into weeks, which then turned into months, followed by years, and I’ve loved you three summers now, honey, but I want them all.