We first crossed paths during our senior year of high school, when life felt full of possibilities and big plans. We connected over the fact that we were both planning to attend the same college, dreaming about the adventures that awaited us there. As fate would have it, those plans changed, and neither of us ended up going to that college after all. But the connection we formed never faded—in fact, it only grew stronger. Looking back, it’s clear that our story wasn’t about where we were going, but about finding each other along the way.