I (Emily) was hosting part time at Grand Street Cafe. Bruce was bartending there at the time as well. He had visited the host stand several times to say hi or to ask about how my day was. I never really thought anything of it until our mutual friend Lizzy came up to me and told me he thought I had just graduated high school. I confronted Bruce and we had a good laugh about it. From there we started to become friends but not long after that we began to hang out outside of work. He finally asked me out on a date soon after. After about two months had passed, Bruce asked me to join him on a road trip halfway across the country. To make a long story short, on our way home we had some car trouble and had to stay at a motel 8 in the middle of Utah. We can both say that's when we first fell in love with each other. That was the first time we told each other, "I love you."