We met in 2006 at University of California Santa Cruz, most likely at a party co-sponsored by the Jewish fraternity and sorority, where we were both respective members. Natan was in his junior year and had recently returned from studying abroad in Turkey, and Nitza was a freshman. We knew each other, but that was it, and went our separate ways after graduation. Sixteen years later, to our amazement, we reconnected in Portland, Oregon and shortly after fell in love. And the rest, as they say, is history!