Sometimes in a beautiful love story, Fate steps into someone’s life and says, “Hey, your soulmate is right here waiting for you”, and then nudges two people together. In this story, Fate’s name is Tara. So Tara/Fate hosted a backyard movie night in August of 2022, after which Victoria gave Tony her phone number. A few days (and many, many, MANY texts) later, they had the best first date that started at a small river in Vermont and ended over 8 hours later at a different river with the remnants of a delicious pizza. Flash forward through a montage of the next few years which features tons of laughing, snuggles, travel across the US and to Mexico, and tons of terrible puns. Then on July 3rd, they were back at that same river playing with rocks when Tony got down on one knee and proposed to Victoria who immediately started laugh-crying. (She said yes.) About 15 minutes later, she ran up to her car, sprinted back with a gift for Tony and proposed back to him. (He said yes.)