We met in college through mutual friends. We would speak in passing but nothing more. Fast forwarding to 2010, Joseph would contact me often through social media just to check in and see how I was doing. He always expressed how he’d always like me and I would just brush it off. We began to communicate more and more over the years and in 2014 he really showed his interest in being with me. I had planned a small gathering at my place to celebrate my Birthday and earlier that day he had sent me a dozen of Roses and a message in a bottle with blue roses (my favorite color). That took me over the hill. Later that evening, my party was beginning to take place and I had a few close friends already there. We heard a knock on the door and when my friend opened the door, there was Joseph standing and smiling from ear to ear. The whole time he told me he was home in New York, so to see him standing there literally knocked me off my feet.