They crossed paths many times but it wasn’t the right time until now. She spent summers in the house his parents bought from one of her best friend’s parents. He left Coastal Carolina University in 2005 just as she started. She left Long Island, shortly before he moved there in 2016. Apparently it took the Universe to produce a global pandemic for them both to slow down long enough to be in the same place at the same time. And now here they are!