The first time I met Casey was at a school dance my freshman year. She grabbed me by the arm and took me to the dance floor to freak me. Later that night she messaged me on AOL instant messanger. With some weeks of persistence, she stole me away from the floosies. She has been my best friends for 10 years now- experiencing long distance, separate colleges, life struggles and many many ups and downs. Through it all we've always had each other. Our bond is strong enough to stand in any storm. I've known I wanted to marry Casey for a long time but I was too poor. 201 7 was the year I saved to get a ring she deserved and I planned a special night in San Diego (her favorite city) to ask her to be my wife. Casey knows me better than I know me. She's been there in my darkest moments and she's watched me become a young man. She is my peace, my source of pure comfort, my love.

Without knowing it, Miguel lived just one block away from me in high school. One day with three of my friends over at my house, we saw Miguel and 3 of his friends walk by with their shirts off to go play basketball- at that moment each of us girls "called dibs" on a guy and made bets about asking them out at the back to school dance - LOL! So long story short I followed through calling dibs on Migs, snagged him at the dance and ended the night talking on AOL instant messenger. I would say our first "date" after that involved me driving my mom's ghetto mini van to Newells after a Friday night football game. Guess he fell in love when he saw me bang on a car battery with a wrench and got the van to start 😂 We've been together 10 years now, made it through long distance throughout college, crazy ups and downs, many many fights and growing up but I wouldn't change a thing about our story or we wouldn't be where we are at today. Mig is truely my best friend, comfort and soulmate