On August 22, 2025, my family and I boarded a plane to Puerto Rico to celebrate my parents' 29th wedding anniversary. Little did I know, just an hour after takeoff, my best friend, Khalij Whitaker, was catching his own flight to Puerto Rico to give me the surprise of a lifetime. He even brilliantly paid for Wi-Fi on the plane so he could keep texting me after I landed and cleverly changed his iPad location to make it seem like he was spending the whole day at work. I suspected nothing. After we arrived, we got ready for our first night. The plan was to take family photos on the beach. But when we got there, I was completely shocked to see the figure of a man I couldn't quite make out in the distance. For a split second, I was nervous trying to figure out if it was a random local ready to photobomb our family pictures! However, that fear instantly melted into excitement as soon as I heard his voice call out to me. As I ran toward him, he took my hand, told me how much I meant to him, and asked me the biggest question of my life: "Will you marry me?" And of course, I said “YES!”