"I first saw her in the 7th grade at a school dance. I thought she was beautiful and needed to ask her to dance; never in a million years would I have expected the response I got, nor did I ever expect it to hit me so hard. Candy Rain had just replaced Savage Garden on the Playlist in the school cafeteria and I finally had the courage to ask her for a dance. Her Response? 'I'm sorry, I have better f***** things to do with my time!' I was crushed and strangely hooked. Shortly after that my family moved away from Marlborough and all I had was a memory, a memory that I would not soon forget. A few years had gone by, and I found myself in a youth program for adolescent men out in Watertown, Massachusetts. One night, while outside being the young dumb kid I was, a car pulled up and to my surprise, out hopped the same girl that turned me down for a dance all those years ago. The difference now was she was no longer the young girl from 7th grade but a very beautiful young lady; holy crap she was standing 5 feet in front of me. I had no choice, I had to talk to her again. I asked if she had remembered me at all from middle school and her response was perfect: 'Am I supposed to?!' I knew for sure it was the girl I couldn't get off my mind. I tried jogging her memory by telling the story of the first time we met, and she said, 'yeah I was such a bitch then.' My response, which I had been waiting to give back to her since that night in the school cafeteria all those years ago, 'Well, it's nice to see that some things don't change!' As I said that, I watched her mouth drop to the floor; I don't know if anyone had ever spoken to her that way, but I could tell she was into me from that moment. I walked away leaving her hanging but that wasn't it, no way it could be. I got her number from a buddy of mine that night and I called her; to my surprise she answered and wasn't rude. She told me she was sorry for saying she had better things to do with her time at the dance all those years ago. That night, we spoke until the sun came up and really got to know each other on a personal level. We kept in touch with one another for over a year, becoming very good friends. In the process, little did she know she became my best friend. It wasn't until I was 21 that we started dating and from there we dated for roughly 5 years. We had a lot of ups and downs during that time: I had just gotten into job corp and she had just graduated from Blaine. Then disaster struck my life, my father ended up having a stroke and wanted me to go and help take care of him; he was in the mid-west. After going, I quickly realized how much of a mistake I made; we fell out of touch with one another and eventually broke up due to the long distance. We kept in touch here and there as friends throughout the years, always checking in on one another to make sure things were okay. It wasn't until almost 17 years later that we found ourselves staring at each other through a doorway, with me holding a pizza and a dozen roses, our eyes locked for the first time in over a decade. I knew from that moment that she was everything my life had been missing and I realized I wanted to never spend another second away from this woman. This was in fact my whole heart and I couldn't afford to lose this again. The last year spent with her has been an amazing journey and I cannot wait to see what the rest of our lives brings together!"