Karl and I met many years ago through a mutual friend...truthfully it was Karl's ex-girlfriend and an estranged friend of mine. Fast forward a year or so after the dust settled and Karl and I reconnected over us being neighbors in Capitol Hill. We became true friends! Then Covid struck--we'd not seen each other for sometime and we happened to run into each other at Cheesman Park. Karl and I started having frequent outside happy hours on my porch (I was a desperate extrovert during quarantine!). Over the summer months we ended up spending a lot of time together. I found myself coming up with excuses to get together, and Karl always gladly obliged. Slowly I realized how much I cared about "my friend" Karl. One day I told him how I really felt about him over a latte and the rest was history!