The leaves were fulling changing when an unlikely meeting would change the course of two separate lives. A pleasant distraction would throw a Reggie Miller look alike off his game one Wednesday afternoon. Since he couldn't seem to land another shot he took one another way, as he went to say hi. That was the day Marcus met Nicole. Over the next few week these two were in separable. Forging a bond that would come to prove impenetrable. Nicole would later walk her journey down military avenue while Marcus took the scenic route of adulthood. Mother always said, if it is meant to be .....it will never hold you back. How right she was, two decades later there would be another chance meeting. This time it was masked in modern times, so shout out to Facebook. That connection started a conversation, highlighted with a lot of catching up they took the obvious path towards reconnection. July 2015 they reconnected and became a couple in April 2016. Preparation and opportunity made a slam dunk and lets just say the rest is history.

It was two and half years and a second lifetime since Marcus and Nicole reconnected. Their magical journey was everything that it could have even been. The only choice he needed to make was did he want it to end. Countless hours of searching. The time had finally arrived. On March 25, 2019 Marcus mustered up the courage, placed himself down on one knee and asked Nicole the question she had long anticipated that would change their lives forever. Standing in the mirror putting the finishing touches on herself as she was about to leave for work, her name was called out. Nicole, he yelled. Yeah babe, whats up was her response. Nicole, he yelled again. Turning around with impatience, only to find him bent over as if he had fallen. But as his head arose there was a box opening and it was what came next that would be the beginning of their forever love story. Nicole, Will you spend the rest of your life with me? She was covered in love and sheer delight, when she gave him the response of Yes.