We first met through mutual friends nearly 9 years ago when we both lived in Boston. Since then, we kept bumping into each other around the world (including the Bogota airport in 2012), even as we moved cities, but no there were no sparks. We both managed to find our way to San Francisco around the same time and the random collisions continued. And even after a failed matching-making attempt by friends, still no sparks. It wasn't until a mutual friend's birthday party in 2015 that we realized we shared so much in common - similar interests, families, values, and east African roots. And on that night sparks finally flew. We haven't looked back since.