Winter 1995 was the year. Joseph was a senior on Northwest Halifax High School’s varsity basketball team and I was a junior playing for Roanoke Rapids High. After the game on our home court, one of my friends went up to him and said: “Hey Flood my friend likes you but she’s scared to come talk to you.” I'm sure glad she did because shortly after we started dating. He would come over on Sundays and we would watch movies and hang out. Spring 1996 he asked me to go with him to senior prom. Of course, I said yes. After he graduated we went our separate ways not knowing that 23 years later we would be walking down the aisle to become husband and wife.