(A spotlight fades in on a dark stage. A narrator wearing a ten gallon hat and a three-piece suit sits on a small wooden barstool, lighting the end of a pipe.) (smoke billows from the pipe) Narrator: It all began with two eager-eyed teenagers finding themselves in a tiny southern Colorado mountain town. She was the waitress at the only bar in town. It was a homely bar. The kind of small town bar that serves primarily Banquet beers to patrons named Jim who haven't taken their wranglers off since their Chevy started rusting out. And he? Well, he was the lucky son-of-a-gun tagging along on someone else's family vacation. When he walked through those paint-chipped, heavy wooden doors her eyes nearly melted right off of her face. She couldn't believe her luck when they sat right down in her section. Her palms were sweatin' like the outside of a cold beer on a hot summer day, but he couldn't have found it in himself to care. He was mesmerized by her eyes. Those big, brown, glassy, funny eyes. This family he was with took quite a liking to this young lady, and by the time the check came around they were right chuffed to be settin' up our two youngesters. They met, they kissed, they fell in love. College gave them two years of a passionate, tumultuous, thrilling, hilarious, adventure together. But as some of you may know, to be young is to be dumb; and two dumb kids equals one bad relationship. So they split. It ended in two, confused broken hearts with a name seared deep down in some corner of a cavern in their hearts. They learned, they changed, they grew. (Long drag on the pipe) They lived, they laughed, they loved. (pregnant pause) I think *the royal* they calls it fate [maybe destiny, maybe coincidence]...whatever it may be, Tanner and Maddie found themselves eight years later staring into the eyes of the person they knew they loved all along. That's right. Each other. (Enter Maddie in a fabulous outfit stage right) Maddie: And this time around we find ourselves loving the person who somehow - despite however unlikely it may be that soul mates actually exist - is the only person our souls were ever meant to truly love in this lifetime. Hard stop. (Enter Tanner stage left. Walks silently across stage and holds Maddie's hand.) Tanner: I love you. Maddie: I love you too.