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September 20, 2025
Chicago, IL

Bella & Mason

Mason Damaska

and

Bella Avila

September 20, 2025

Chicago, IL

How we Met

We met over a quick run in at Lurie Children's hospital. The brief interaction turned into a months long game of avoidance which lead into Bella cornering Mason into asking for his phone number. That turned into a game of telephone until Bella prompted Mason with the million dollar question of "When are you going to invite me over to make this homemade pasta I hear about." Pasta and wine then evolved into watching Sunday football (Bengals of course) and Cincinnati Chili. Now, Bella and Tush are a package deal, you can't have one without the other and after an infamous post shift convo Mason said he wouldn't want to meet Tush until he knew he would be a constant figure in his life. I think a month later Tush joined for another Bengals game, it was then right there, watching Mason jump to help with the carseat, snacks, milk bottles that Bella knew, he is definitely the one. Our three person family quickly felt like one out of a romantic comedy.

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