It was a July evening in the city of Chicago (2015). Lily decided to walk her dog Bronco through a crowded street festival, “The Taste of River North”. Being the scavenger that he is, Bronco was focused on sniffing out scraps of dropped French fries and hot dog buns, lurching Lily along through the crowd in the process. As fate would have it, the trail Bronco was on led directly to Joe (shorts still wet from an earlier pool party). After a warm and funny introduction, Joe asked Lily if he could someday help walk her dog. The rest, folks, is history.