Life can be funny. Liz had vacation days to burn three July’s ago. Nghia was used to friends bumming the couch in San Francisco as they passed by. She ditched her yearly tradition to go Up North, opting for a weekend in the City by the Bay. He pretended he enjoyed the outdoors. She pretended she wasn’t scared of riding a bicycle down the hills of SF. She did not pack appropriately. He acted like he wasn’t freezing at a beach bonfire once she took his fleece. Neither they nor their friends knew what was happening... but life can be funny. Liz cried once she boarded her return flight to Ohio. Nghia would not stop texting every day after she left. In the matter of seventy-two hours, a seven-year friendship was turning into a long distance courtship. You’d need a cork board and string map to plot the different cities and countries they traversed over the next eighteen months. Somewhere while up in the air, they both realized what was under their nose since they first met back in 2011. Over a decade later, the two friends are to become the one pair on 03/25/2022. Life can be funny.