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Kara & Paul

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Paul Collier

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Kara Gonzales

November 11, 2024

Guthrie, OK

How we met

First comes friendship, then comes marriage

Paul and I met at our place of work in Oklahoma City. He was new to my building working down in security. I had just came back from medical leave and went down to the security office to say hi to my friends and saw Paul. I noticed Paul right away and thought he looked like a sexy "Mr. Clean". Our friendship started with conversations over eating healthy and working out, it quickly turned into us laughing about his dating life. We soon realized he needed a code word to get out of his terrible dates. He had a date one night after work and I had this feeling about how it might go; that night he texted me using our code word. The following day at work we laughed about it and talked about how the date went. We realized we lived close to one another so he started joining me on walks at Lake Hefner, especially on the weekends. Our friend and her husband were having a Fun Run for their non-profit "The Caleb Effect", which raises money for the research of SUDC. Since Paul and I were walking at Lake Hefner, we decided to sign up for the Fun Run but also get a group of friends together to walk with us. We started walking together more frequently since we signed up for the fun run. We talked about life, relationships, our families, traveling, things in life we wanted to do and see. We soon realized how much we have in common. While walking together we decided we were going to play a joke on a friend and tell him we were dating to get a reaction. Later that week, we told him we were dating; instead of the reaction we were hoping for, he got very excited so we just continued to play along. We went to dinner one night to continue the ruse, I didn't realize it was a real date until after. One date lead to another..and here we are!

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