We met through our friend (Thanks Mike) who brought Anthony along when a group of us were hanging out at a park one night. I hit my head and most of you know my chronic pain condition flares up when this happens, so i had to go home for the night pretty soon after I met him. He later told me that he thought I was full of crap when I had to leave so early. I got his number from Mike and invited him along the next time we all hung out. I forced him to come along with us to go see the Despicable Me 2 movie where he in turn forced me to sit by him. Later he invited me over to his apartment in order to watch my favorite version of Peter Pan so I lugged my VHS player over and we watched Cathy Rigby fly across the stage and we've been together ever since.

We took our wonderful dog Koda out on a walk through the woods down the street from our first apartment in Chicago. We stopped for a second on the trail and hugged when I felt him reach into his pocket. He got down on one knee and said really fast "Will you marry me?". I -of course- started to cry and I finally choked out a 'yes' and he was so excited that he threw the ring onto my finger.