Pt. I: Alvin and Donna met during the early 2000's in high school through Donna's cousin, Rachel, who also happens to be one of Alvin's long time close friends. After a couple of friendly late night calls (and Donna trying to set Alvin up with a friend), they ended up briefly dating after discovering feelings for one another in high school for a few months become one another's first boyfriend/girlfriend. However, they split ways after establishing that they were on different paths at that point in time. Pt. II: Blink ahead a few years and they briefly crossed paths again during College. They had a few great conversations but left it at that as Donna was in another relationship at the time. Pt. III: Fast forward to about 10 years later, they find themselves in the same place at the same time but in Las Vegas for Rachel and Dale's wedding. They momentarily caught up on life and Alvin got to meet little Darren and Lexi. Little did they know, the world as they knew it was about to change. Shortly after Las Vegas, Donna, Darren, and Lexi went through the biggest change of their lives and the world shut down for COVID 19. Donna spent the next 2-3 years working on herself-- truly healing; slowly but intentionally and genuinely letting light shine back into her life. However, as most of us know, grief comes in waves and during a particularly dark storm towards the end of 2021, Donna decided to reach out to Alvin in hopes of feeling some type of closure. This resulted in a 7 hour phone conversation where neither Alvin or Donna wanted to hang up the phone. Both were in harder seasons of life but found solace in one another during that phone call. Realizing that there was always an ease in conversation and enjoying one another's company, they had more great conversations. After about a year of getting to know that 30-yr old versions of one another and ourselves, Alvin got to finally meet Darren and Lexi once again. The rest is history.