The year was 2012, and we were both attending schools in Massachusetts. Madeleine was an acting student at Emerson College, staging public Shakespeare performances in Boston Common and crying a lot on public transportation. Ryan was a business major at Bentley University, working tirelessly as the president of his fraternity and sampling cuisine that ranged from Dunkin' Donuts to Domino’s Pizza. We frequented the same grocery store, movie theater, and T stop, but we never met. Six years later, we were both living in San Francisco, CA. We both swiped right, but Madeleine messaged first, because she is a strong, modern woman who knows what she wants in life (read: was bored at work). Drinks turned into dinner turned into moving in together, traveling the country, getting a puppy, and surviving a global pandemic--just how we imagined it!