We met at Thomas Jefferson Middle School in Teaneck, NJ on the first day of 5th grade. It only took 11 years to realize we were in love. It took another 11 to get engaged.

Over the course of eleven years, Joshua secretly built a sailboat. It was a crucial part of his proposal plans (but he refuses to reveal what these plans were). Little did he know that Katina had also been building a sailboat. While out on test runs on the Atlantic Ocean, they accidentally crashed into each other. The 35-carat diamond ring fell out of Josh's pocket and into the mouth of a great white shark. Josh dove into the water and wrestled the shark's jaws open, prying the ring from its teeth and punching the beast in his snout. Exhausted from his heroic battle, Josh struggled to remain afloat. Luckily Katina had built a superior sailboat that remained unharmed in the crash. She grabbed a life preserver and did an exceptionally executed swan dive into the water. She dragged him to shore where he placed the ring on her finger as the sun disappeared behind the horizon. (Josh got down on one knee and proposed during a walk on a misty evening in Forest Hills Gardens.)