We met in high school. Or rather, we stared at each other from across the hallways for two years until Mark got up the courage to ask me for my senior picture. He was the new boy our junior year in high school, and in my opinion, the cutest boy in our class. We never dated in high school, unfortunately, and never spoke again before graduating in 1974. Fast forward 45 years to our class reunion July of 2019. He was supposed to be there, but his daughter had emergency surgery and he was unable to make it. Later he saw our reunion class photo on Facebook and I was one of the few people he recognized so he reached out to say hello on Classmates. From there we went to being Facebook friends and texting via Messenger a few times a week. We slowly developed a friendship over the course of about four to five months. Eventually we decided to talk on the phone, still as friends, but realized there was something more going on. Not long after that, we realized this was really it and by May 2021, he moved from MO to PA to be together.