I’m sure many of you came here looking for answers as to how I have managed to hang on to Jenny for a decade. Well, you won’t find them; not here anyway. But if you do, I’d really love to be looped in. My only explanation, as Jenny will tell you any chance she gets, is that I am one lucky guy. What you will find, however, is a quick story about two kids who realized that life was meant to be lived together. When I met Jenny in 2012 at The University of Virginia, I was a scrawny 19 year old boy with a bad buzz cut and a beat up truck named Craig that Jenny pretended to hate. Fortunately, she was able to get rid of the buzzcut but could never shake the boy, or Craig for that matter. Now, as any good relationship begins, ours started with me sitting at our college apartment’s elegant and multipurpose beer-pong table turned dining-room table reading the bolded phrases to Jenny from my Organic Chemistry textbook. This was a rather pathetic (or valiant, depending on your viewpoint) effort to help tutor the cute girl next door who had joined the course a week late. Although it remains unclear what kept her interested after this debacle, other than my witty charm and love for pugs, we quickly fell for each other and became best friends. Little did we know, the next ten years would include moves to Richmond and Oregon, new nieces and nephews joining each of our families, surviving medical school due to Jenny’s moral (and financial) support, standing atop Mount St.Helens, one heavily used back brace, and constantly making incredible memories with both new friends and old. Nonetheless, it may be the things that have not changed over that period that have been the most important. We have never stopped laughing, never stopped growing, and never stopped pushing each other to be more open-minded. So what Jenny and I really hope is that the next ten years will be much like the last; that the more things change, the more they stay the same. We could not be more excited to have all of you at our side as we begin this next big life adventure on May 6th and as we tie the knot on a wedding that, given how quickly I proposed, I’m positive none of you saw coming. Much love, J&J