Amy had a hunch Joe was going to be someone special even before they met. Instead of a tired, cheesy pickup line, he said to her, "So you're a bill collector...I bet you've heard some of the most epic bull$#!t of all time!" In fact she was so convinced he was special, she baked him a batch of white chocolate chip cherry cookies for their first date, not knowing til a year or two later that he'd eaten enough white chocolate to last a lifetime while deployed in Iraq! But he ate the cookies, and reported back that they were, in fact, delicious. The two lived an hour apart from each other when they met, and their first date was to a concert at Fort Riley, near where Joe lived. He picked her up, driving a total of 4 hours to and from for the date that night, and didn't even try to kiss her at the end of the night. Instead, he implicated his interest by asking her what she was doing the following weekend. And then the next, and the next...and here they are!