Gee and Erik first met at a Bushwick rooftop party that he was hosting for the Fourth of July. She came with some friends he knew and they connected right away. They danced together that night and spent most of the party together. They even shared their first kiss. They ended up hanging out with their group of friends throughout that summer. And they decided to be just friends. Neither was immediately looking for a relationship. Still, they grew closer. There was always something special between them. Everything changed when Erik hosted his next big rooftop party for Labor Day. For fun he had organized a staged reading of William Shakespeare's Star Wars by Ian Doescher (an adaptation of the Star Wars films into Shakespeare-style plays). Playing Luke Skywalker, he slipped on a plastic bag and dislocated his kneecap. Gee arrived to the party to see him on the ground writhing in pain. The party ended and he was carried out on a stretcher and sent to the hospital. Most everyone left, but she managed to linger until he returned a few hours later with his kneecap back in place, walking on crutches. It meant so much to him that she stayed to check on him. For the next couple of weeks she took on the role of his nurse. They talked every day, she brought him food and friends, and their close friendship shifted into something more intimate. They were starting to truly fall for each other. They got to the point where they both knew this could really be special. But the incredible friendship they had formed was so crucially important to both of them. They even had a long conversation about it... do they get together and risk ruining the friendship? Well, we all know how that turned out. They decided to try, and immediately fell head-over-heels, giddy-as-can-be, life-changingly in love. They had it all. They were a couple of hooligans running around New York like they owned the place, chasing their artist dreams, dancing the nights away, and laughing til the sun came up again. It was the most exhilerating, intoxicating, happiest either of them had ever been. But simulaneously to this whole story... Erik was deep into callbacks for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. And then he booked it... in San Francisco. The company was moving him to the West Coast. The contract was for 15 months. Suddenly, their budding relationship was at a crossroads. Erik asked Gee to move with him. She had just established herself in Brooklyn and had her own career to consider. After thinking long and hard about it, she decided to take a chance and uproot her life for him. They moved to San Francisco, and, well, it was horrible there. The show was amazing, but the city was a disaster and Gee was so unhappy. They both decided it was best for her to move back to New York to pursue her career and manage a long-distance relationship, and she was mere weeks away from her move, when, kaboom, the pandemic began. After crashing in Erik's parents' basement for five months, they realized they had to make something of their time as they waited out the long shutdown. And the idea they had was, as it has been described, turning pandemic lemons into lemonade. They moved to the island of Oahu and set up a new life there, halfway across the world from everything they knew. They thought they would stay a few months... it turned into 14 months. Their love matured in paradise, their spiritual connection with that blessed land forever shifted their perspectives, and they were so happy. Eventually the pandemic began to recede, Erik got his show back in SF, and Gee moved back to New York. They transitioned to a long-distance relationship, and counted down the months until they would be reunited. And finally, nearly a year later, Erik got the opportunity to transfer to the Broadway production of the show. He moved in with Gee on the Upper West Side, they got their adorable goldendoodle puppy, Fudge Lola, and he proposed in Central Park in the North Woods. The rest is history!