It was August 2020 at a small community health center in Quincy, Massachusetts when our protagonists first crossed paths. A beautiful handmade quilted work bag, an Instagram Lurking campaign, and a shared workspace cultivated a tentative friendship that grew in spurts between third-year clinical rotations and graduate education - with many stalls along the way! Yet still, with any journey, directions change even if the destination is the same; true connections of inner universes.