Our story begins with an invisible string that connected us long before we were born. The string started out long, stretching all the way from Africa to the United States. When Keagan moved to Virginia, just 22 miles from where Olivia was growing up, our long string became wrapped and tangled with the people we love. All the while, never meeting. Olivia and Keagan spun their string far and wide, sometimes becoming beautiful crochets, some messy knots. Until finally, on one random day in the Caribbean, one of those people who we are so lucky to have both wrapped tightly in our webs, introduced us. And then, all of a sudden, our string became very short.