2008: Freshman year at HWS. Dorm party in Bartlett Hall! Tim has just moved in and his new roommate, Will, invites friends over. Emma is one of them. She wears her special tie dye shirt. 2009-2012: Emma and Tim see each other around campus and in the two poetry classes they’re in together. Tim is often wearing a straw hat and no shoes. He is experimenting with “style.” 2012: They graduate. Tim moves to Tulsa, Oklahoma and becomes a public school teacher. Emma moves to Brooklyn, New York and ends up in the coffee industry. 2014: They exchange one message on social media about a mutual friend. 2015: Tim moves to Syracuse to start an MFA program in poetry. 2020: After sticking out the beginning of the pandemic in Brooklyn, Emma decides to move back upstate. She has some friends in Syracuse and a job opportunity happens to line up! 2021: Emma learns that one of her coworkers knows Tim. Tim from college! Emma receives a Facebook message from Tim: “My friend Jake mentioned you’re in syracuse now? Welcome!” A few weeks (and many clever, semi-flirtatious messages) later, they go out for drinks at Eden. Then, an all-day coffee date at Skytop. They start cooking together and Tim meets Emma’s cats! All feels easy and right. 2023: In April, they get engaged in Burlington, Vermont. In October, they buy a house together! 2024: They get married!