Dave was a graduate student in UNC Chapel Hill's psychology department. Kate worked in the research lab across the hall from his office. They spent several months exchanging awkward smiles in the hallways before they finally spoke the night of a UNC-Duke basketball game. They ‘ended up’ at the same bar and hit it off right away. UNC lost but the night was a win. After that, the awkward smiles turned into lunchtime walks, weekly trivia, and ‘new food’ date nights. Dave told Kate he was all in, but she worried that dating someone at work could get messy. Thankfully, he knew exactly what he had to do. He got a yellow lab puppy. And the rest, as they say, is history!