We like to say we found each other in the woods, more specifically by the river. Jess, on a float trip with some law school friends down the Meramec River, stopped on a gravel bar for lunch, when Jack came walking out of the woods. After being too shy to speak, they went their separate ways for months, later reconnecting at a wedding of mutual friends, where they were also still too shy to speak. A brave text message from Jack a week afterwards, a first date at a carnival, and a few years later: they share a house, seven chickens, and a dog named Blue.