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Sasha Alvarez

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Jonathan Denney

October 12, 2026

Jefferson, NC
179 days179 d20 hours20 h45 minutes45 min29 seconds29 s

Welcome to the Beginning of Always

Highschool Sweethearts

It was December 8, 2012, in Wynwood, the Art Basel crowd was buzzing, the night alive with color and music and chance. Sasha was a junior in high school, Jon a senior, each wandering the art installations with separate groups of friends, unaware that one familiar introduction would quietly reroute their lives. A friend knew a friend, paths crossed, and suddenly the night belonged to both of them. It was a night full of laughter, curiosity, and the electric feeling of possibility. Somewhere between conversations about life and music, Jon instinctively pulled Sasha back from a speeding car, unknowingly sealing the moment into memory forever, and unknowingly marking the beginning of them. From that night on, they were inseparable. Their teenage love unfolded effortlessly—movie nights, sushi maki, wandering the Gables, and long evenings with their closest friends, fueled by coffee, cheap champagne, and endless laughter. Jon’s senior year passed in moments that felt both fleeting and infinite. Then summer came. Life pulled them in different directions—Sasha to Chicago with her family, Jon toward a new entrepreneurial path. It was a distance neither wanted, but one that allowed them to grow separately, becoming the people they needed to be. Years later, life had other plans. In the summer of 2016, without coordination or expectation, they found themselves in Chicago at the same time—Jon accepted into Techstars to build his future in software and business, Sasha returning home from college to reset and reimagine her path. Reuniting felt scary—but loving each other never did. This time, they had choice. And certainty. From that moment forward, they built a life—moving across the country, returning to Miami, graduating, growing careers, creating a home, and welcoming their fur children along the way. Through every transformation, the pull that began on a Wynwood street corner never faded. And today, surrounded by the people who shaped them, cheered them on, and loved them through every chapter, they are overjoyed to celebrate not the end of a story—but the beginning of what comes next. Welcome to the start of forever.

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