We met during junior year at Fitch High School, when Sam urgently needed a ride home from the AP History study session because Harry was on the other end of the phone scolding him. Our entire relationship is dependent on Andrew Lewis, who recommended Allie drive Sam home in her shiny new 2005 Hyundai Elantra (The "Alpha Mare" is still running strong). However, it wasn't until the spring of senior year that sparks really started to fly. Allie asked Sam to take part in the "Mr. Falcon" male beauty pageant just so she could be his escort on stage. After hours of after school pageant practice, a romance developed. Pageant night ended with Sam asking Allie to prom outside of our town's one and only 24-hour diner, Groton Town House. The rest, as they say, is history.