A young and starry-eyed Claire moved to Los Angeles to pursue her degree in Architecture. While she worked hard in school, Grady, the local bad-boy and hot pizza-guy, started hanging around more and more. Eventually, one pepperoni pizza at a time, he won her heart. Grady courted Claire for about a year before he moved to New Orleans to finish school. After this, Claire moved to Beijing to work for a year and to prove that she could move farther than Grady. Eventually, she joined him in New Orleans. She thought it would be just a year or so, while he finished school, but New Orleans felt differently. The two of them continued to fall in love with New Orleans and each other the longer they were there.