We grew up down the street from one another our whole lives. We didn’t meet until sometime in middle school, but become close friends and hung out with the same group of people— often at one of our houses. Joe left for Norwich, VT to attend college Alexa's senior year of high school, and she left for Fredonia the following year. Throughout our years at college, we consistently stayed in touch and always got together when we were home for break. After college we both found ourselves living down the street from one another once again. We started spending more and more time together, finally deciding to take a chance on love, and take our friendship to a relationship— best chance we ever took. We have been lucky enough to have known each other for over half of our lives. We have grown up together, traveled together, moved in together, moved across the state together, bought a house together, and built a life together. They always tell you to marry your best friend, and we are so thankful and lucky to be able to say that we are.