After a long-time mutual friend introduced them at a concert, Ben couldn't get Jamie off his mind. One night while grading finals, she received a phone call from the shy suitor inviting her to a puppy play date. ("Ben who? ...Oh yeah!") Over the next few weeks, the pups hit it off while their humans wondered how they'd missed each other over the past twenty years. Then on Christmas night, Jamie invited Ben over for a movie sans the furbabies, and he arrived dressed to the nines with a bottle of wine in tow. As she searched for accoutrements, Ben casually produced an additional party favor: a sprig of mistletoe! Except, as Jamie pointed out, the cutting wasn't *actually* mistletoe, but a piece of holly. Undeterred, Ben moved in for the first kiss. <3 The next day, a destructive tornado tore through the city, and the two volunteered to help a young couple clear the concrete slab where their home had once stood. Offering a found Christmas ornament, Ben embraced the tearful homeowner sympathetically as Jamie looked on. She knew at that moment he was truly someone special, and decided to put him to ultimate first date test: a redneck wedding! Ben later recalled the ceremony as the sweetest thing he'd ever seen, and Jamie was hooked. Slowly but surely, the couple came to realize how much they shared in common - from music and the arts to travel and the outdoors. Hence, their catch phrase soon became: "Where have you been?" Four years later, they're still in awe of how easy and how right it feels being together.