Alex doesn’t remember meeting Max. Their first meeting was at a kickball game and despite speaking for half an hour, Alex has no memory of meeting the man she would one day fall in love with and marry. Max, on the other hand, knew immediately that he had found someone special. Alex, however, was hours away from moving back to Chicago. That initial spark (at least on Max’s side!), seemed destined to flicker out then and there. As fate would have it, a job offer would bring Alex back to Santa Barbara months later. Fate continued to bring them together, at dinners and parties with mutual friends, in the random encounters that happen naturally in a town as small as Santa Barbara. But these encounters passed with friendly smiles and simple “hellos.” That is until February 13, 2016, when Max finally took control and acted on that attraction he had been feeling for months by then. He asked Alex to dinner the following night…and the night after that…and the night after that…