John and Melissa matched on a dating app on a Thursday afternoon in March 2021. They chatted until midnight and ended the conversation with plans for a date on Saturday. John couldn’t wait though… the next day he decided to bring one of his kids to buy some new shoes at Melissa’s store. What could have been kind of creepy wasn’t creepy at all, and while the first meeting was brief, it helped ease some of the first-time-meeting nerves. Both John and Melissa were excited for their first official date the next night. They went out for BBQ (with a loaded baked potato… yum…) and ended up talking for almost 7 hours. Neither one wanted it to end. This was something neither of them expected. Since their first “match” conversation, not a day has gone by when they haven’t spoken to or seen each other. In an instant, everything changed and they haven’t looked back. The next few weeks and months were filled with lots of dates and time spent together. There have been game nights, movies, museums, trips to the zoo, theatre performances, Netflix binging, random adventures, lots of good food, and the overwhelming feeling of being totally loved and accepted all along the way. John proposed on a Thursday afternoon, surprising Melissa so much she yelled “SHUT UP! Really?” while throwing her purse to the ground and frightening the dog. She eventually did say YES and hasn’t really stopped smiling since. “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness and call it love - true love.”