"On the third day, you tell me you love me. I look at you like you are the moon and I am the ocean. We both know exactly how insane we sound, to be making such declarations after only a matter of hours, but never before has it been like this. Never before has the magnetism of gravity pulled me towards someone like this. Time is collapsed. An hour feels like a week, a day into a month. I sit across the table from you at dinner, stare into your ice blue eyes and it feels like I have known you for a lifetime. I’d like to, I think. Perhaps the rest of this one.” Jordan, journal entry 9/9/2022 We met in a small neighbourhood Italian restaurant called Corto in Jersey City, New Jersey. We were so infatuated with each other immediately that we kept taking forever to order dinner and the waiter had to come by the table at least 3 times before we could pull it together. We talked non-stop over glasses of wine and pasta, digging into topics like trauma and divorce, sex and death, topics that two strangers normally would shy away from, but it felt natural. Like we had known each other for years. Our first date ended three days later, and three and a half years later, we’ve been together ever since. We now live together in West Orange, New Jersey with Tom's two beautiful children, Rowan and Elodie, and our three cats, Takkun, Hiro, and Dimitri.