His Story We met about 16 years ago, when she was a freshman and I was a senior in high school. She became good friends with our family during her time at school. Then there was that one time I made the comment that she was good looking but too short for me. Over the next 16 years she kept in touch with our family. Then she came to Chattanooga for her residency and started spending more time with our family. Through time she spent with our family and seeing how my parents loved having her around, I began to realize I was falling in love with her also. One night while she and I were going to my sister's house, I decided to let her know about the feelings that I was starting to have for her and things moved on from there. Now, after 9 months, she has become the love of my life and the person I want to spend the rest of my life with, even though she is short. Her Story I found myself displaced for high school from Bkln, New York to the middle of nowhere: Dayton, TN - where I could literally hear the silence. I was close to many staff families, but the Herras were one of my favorites. They became my home away from home. I recall sitting in on conversations with the girls in the dorm about how Bubba was good looking and blah blah. I would just roll my eyes and tell them to calm down. Between college and med school, I checked in with the Herras frequently. Medical Residency brought me back to TN and I found their home to be a refuge from the life of residency - my rose colored glasses for life on most weekends. When I came back from Africa in February of 2017, I found myself hanging out with Bubba more often - it ranged from riding the four wheeler, to shooting a gun for the first time, to attempting to learn to drive a stick shift. And then he told me he had feelings for me. Floored. What? When? What?! Prayer. And the rest is history. This city girl was swept off her feet by a country boy. I didn't know love could be this beautiful. But God knew.