We met at the ages of 15 and 16 when we sat next to each other in an English class called "World, Myths & Legends" at Spooner High School. The class was taught by Blake's Mom, Terri Johnson (shout out to Terri for arranging the seating chart). We became great friends during our final years of high school. However, when we both went off to different colleges, we gradually fell out of touch. Around 5 years later, Blake was back in Spooner for a weekend when Terri’s friend, Sue Winesburg (Alli's Aunt), mentioned that Alli also lived near Minneapolis. It just so happened that we only lived 4 blocks away from each other in St. Louis Park. Excited to reconnect, we met up a couple of times in social settings, but it wasn't until 2019 that we finally went on our first date - and the rest, as they say, was history! Timing really is everything and little did we know, it would take us 11 years from the day we met to truly find each other.