When 17-year old Justin met 14-year old Amanda at Kennedy Catholic High School in 2010, there would have been no convincing either of them that they had just met the person they were going to spend their lives with. Despite being friends, their age gap did not even allow them to consider dating one another as an option at that time. At the end of the 2010-11 school year, Justin graduated high school and this is where they thought their story would end. For years, the two remained connected via social media. They spoke on occasion, but were living completely separate lives. Justin was living in Tampa, while Amanda was in New York and then Virginia. In the winter/early spring of 2016, Justin and Amanda began to speak more frequently. Little did they know, that May, Amanda would get hired at a restaurant that Justin occasionally picked up shifts at on weekends. She and Justin worked together one Saturday in May, and when he saw her again, it is safe to say that he was speechless. He struggled to formulate words beyond, "wow, it's been forever", for the first ten minutes that they were talking. It didn't take long for him to warm up and begin pranking her, however. By the end of that night, he wasted no time... He walked her to her car and asked Amanda on a date. From that day on, life was full of laughter, love, adventure, challenges, and growth. They successfully made a year and a half of long distance work while Amanda completed her bachelors at JMU in Virginia. They stood by each others sides through highs and lows in life: career changes, graduations, weddings of loved ones, the uncertainties of the COVID-19 pandemic, new life being brought in to this earth, and the pains of some being taken. In this time, they grew together, they supported each other, they loved one another, and they realized there was no one else they could imagine spending the rest of their lives with. On September 26th, 2020, he popped the question... and she said YES!