The beginning of Fall 2019. Kira was one click away from shutting down Tinder for good when she happened upon an obscenely handsome human with a profile that lit her up from the inside out. There was just something about José. Almost at the same time, on the other sides of the screen, José got completely enthralled with the loving, strong, silly, and gorgeous radiance of Kira's pictures. There was just something about Kira. On Friday October 12, 2019, Kira arrived fashionably late to their first date. The world set into soft focus as they settled into each other's eyes. The conversation was flowing. They spent hours talking about everything, drinking old fashioned's, and making crazy discoveries about their, up to that point, parallel existence. José left living in Spain just one month before Kira moved to Italy in 2010. José almost went to CUNY the same years Kira was getting her M.A. there. Both of them were thespians—José at heart, Kira in practice. Both of them loved dancing and being silly to exhaustion. Somewhere in that few hours long date there was a deep knowing that this felt different. But it was that third date making Venezuelan "chupe" (the famous soup) and dancing salsa in Kira's living room (with Ruby of course) that everything changed. They began to build their profound and magical love story.