In 2019, Nate was living in south Florida. His life took an unexpected turn when he was involved in a bad car accident. This led him to return home to Cleveland, Ohio for outpatient speech therapy at Saint John Medical Center, where Dominique worked at that time. Though he was originally supposed to be on the schedule of Kelly, the SLP team lead at SJMC at the time, fate intervened when Kelly was out on vacation the week of Nate’s initial appointment. This serendipitous twist brought Nate into Dominique’s office, where neither of them could have anticipated the connection that would eventually unfold. As soon as Nate’s mom laid eyes on Dominique and Nate together, she sensed a spark—something she would later share with both of them. Meanwhile, Dominique’s close friends and coworkers, Kelly and Heather, were not nearly as subtle. They playfully urged Dominique to give Nate her phone number after he was discharged. Days later, Nate and Dominique went on their first date. In a beautiful twist of destiny, that same day happened to be the birthday of Nate’s Uncle Keith, who had passed away years earlier. It was a moment filled with whispers of fate, as if the universe itself had conspired to bring them together.