How many people can say their mom, little sister, and sister‘s friend were on their first date with their future husband? Our first date was in October 2015 at Art For Art’s Sake in New Orleans. My mom drove us followed by my sister and her friend in the backseat. Ari was in charge of the music and I was shocked when he played In the Air Tonight by Phil Collins a song I had only heard my mom play on her iPod, and I knew there was something different about him.

Ari was in my health class junior year of high school and sat a few rows away from me and when we had free time in that class I would go over and talk to him and Christian. One day I lied and told him I needed the notes for the class just as an excuse to get his Snapchat. Ari recently told me that he rewrote his notes for hours to make them neat before he sent them to me that day.