If you ask JP, we met nearly 10 years ago when he was the responding officer to a car burglary. (He has the incident report to prove it). But our real story began one Christmas parade when I politely asked him to stop traffic in the middle of Coastal Highway so I could hop in my mom's car, who was driving from three blocks north. I remembered his kindness and later messaged him to see if he was going to a LEO appreciation dinner coming up in the next month. Well, he was, but little did I know, he had actually been scheduled to work that night, and instead requested off so he could "see where things would go". We met at dinner, (he was an hour late) and talked all night long. What was supposed to be a casual meeting turned into four hours of realizing how alike we are. After that, I decided to never let him go.