We were both assigned to live on the second floor of Tolley/Brown during our freshman year at Drew University (thanks Bob Meade!) and our friend Alex asked me and my roommate if we wanted to hang out with him and some others from the building in his room down the hall. Me and Ryan met each other, as well as several other friends, and continued to hang out. We were both going home to visit family one weekend, but Ryan promised to visit me in Queens. And visit he did (after missing his exit on the Verazzano and driving through Brooklyn where someone tried to put a carpet in his car). We went on our first date where we got pizza and ice cream, and then saw a terrible horror movie (Apollo 18). When we returned to Drew, Alex pushed Ryan to make our relationship official, and so on 9/7/11 we officially began to date (thanks Alex!).