Although they’d known each other for well over a decade, it wasn’t until a late March morning in 2018 that fate would reunite Justin and Kelly after a series of unfortunate events... A few months prior, Kelly was pulled over for a traffic violation. Merely a week later, in a completely separate incident, Justin’s lead foot (or was it fate?) led him to a run-in with the Boys in Blue as well. A real life Bonnie & Clyde, folks! Well, that judge was a stern one and punished those hardened criminals with a sentence fit for only the most wretched of society. A WHOLE eight hours of community service (*gasp*) ... at the county Easter Festival (*double gasp*). Unbeknownst to one another, each showed up ready to seize the day and repent for their sins (as best as one can for a dreadfully early Saturday morning) and reported to their respective duty stations. Or so they thought... Kelly had been serving coffee and hot chocolate for about an hour when a familiar face wandered through the crowd asking if anybody needed any help (surprise, surprise) with trash cans, etc. Of course, it was none other than the future Clyde to the beverage-serving Bonnie, Mr. Justin MacRae! After realizing that Justin was supposed to be at that same station all along, the two spent the day serving food and drinks to some of Southern Maryland’s finest townsfolk. As the day came to a close, Justin asked Kelly if she’d be interested in getting together to catch up a bit more and watch a movie later that evening. It’d been quite some time since she had socialized with anyone beside a select few friends, and not considering her future Clyde could have any sort of amorous feelings toward her, Kelly (apprehensively) accepted the invitation. They spent the evening catching up, with such an abundance of laughter and chitchat it left little time for a movie, but instead a promise to finish it later. That ‘later’ is soon to be forever, as the two delinquents have been inseparable ever since. 😉.