After "meeting" through a mutual friend and speaking only online and through text for about a year, we met for the first time in person sometime in the late spring of 2008. The next few years would involve a lot of speaking on and off until Hurricane Sandy in 2012. After seeing a news report on television about Emily's community, Broad Channel, Josh reached out to see how her home and family was doing. Several months and a few dates later we found ourselves together and well... 8 years later, here we are!