Noel and I met the modern way, on a dating app. Ironically, if you were to ask him his opinion on dating apps he would tell you that they are awful, but that even a broken clock is right twice a day. I take a different approach. I see dating apps as a tool that can be very effective depending on how you use it, one where you can weed out people much faster than you can in person. Whichever way you look at it, whether you believe we got lucky or that we were intentional, it is hard to deny the fate or the invisible red string involved in our story. I often think about how according to reason and odds we should have missed each other. I could have mindlessly swiped the wrong way on Noel, or he could have easily not opened the app before our match expired. And it makes me wonder: by will of God would we have found each other anyway? When I mention this to Noel he chuckles softly and smiles at me while shaking his head because he is the kind of person who focuses more on the present, grounded in what is real. We did manage to find each other and to him that is more than enough. "To love another person is to see the face of God." - Les Miserables