January 1998 - a scrawny stick of a kid working out in the college campus gym trying to add some muscle sees the most beautiful, angelic, divine young lady walk into the gym to do her thing. It was love at first sight for him. Alas, our young scrawny lad is also quite shy and luckily had to recruit his best friend to help make the introduction. Confusion struck our lass, thinking the stallion from Canada was hitting on her, she was polite and kind, and ultimately introduced to the scrawny stick. We dated for the remainder of the college year until differences in life took us our separate ways. We stayed in touch over the summer and Dave even visited Kate in PA for a weekend. We were able to reconnect during our second year at NTID/RIT when Dave returned to school in Dec '98, but both of us were in relationships and life was still in the way. We had one last hurrah in the summer of '99 when Kate and her friend made their way to MA to visit Dave for a weekend. Our passion and love were rekindled, but alas, a continued relationship was not in the books for us, at least not at the time. Fast forward 24 years later - we both found ourselves in the same boat - in irreconcilable marriages. We found each other on social media - which is not easy with Kate. She is not a big user of social media. We reconnected and it was like we had just stepped away from each other the day before, not with 24 years and other lives between us. Our love for each other is passionate, organic and true. We complement and balance each other out. We've said it many times, our connection must have been set in the universe long ago and we just had to wait for the right moment.