After exchanging messages on Bumble and texting for a week straight, we met for our first date. Ashley ordered an Old Fashioned, Patrick had a Coke. We talked for a while and walked for more than a mile. While we looked out at the twinkling lights over Tempe Town Lake from the walking bridge, we talked about everything we were told NOT to mention on a first date...kids, politics, religion, and more. We had our first kiss that night, and it was not our last.