Nicole and Mack were perfect the first and second time around. They met at a post office in the Roger’s Park neighborhood in Chicago while they were students at Loyola University Chicago when their friend Elaina introduced them. Nicole’s roommates were having a party that night at their apartment and Elaina invited Mack to come. He lived two blocks away. 🧿 They didn’t stop talking the entire time. They dated for a few months that summer and into senior year, but broke up. Nicole moved back to Los Angeles and Mack moved to San Francisco. Years later, Nicole sent Mack an email because she had work in San Francisco. They met up and decided shortly after, nine years later, that they never wanted to be apart. Mack moved to LA in summer 2019, 10 years after they first met. And in 2020, during the pandemic, Mack proposed to Nicole in a poppy field. 🌸