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When Taylor and James met, they had dozens of mutual friends. This was unsurprising. Taylor grew up just a few miles from James’ parents’ home in Holladay, Utah. She graduated from Skyline High School with James’ brother just a few years after James was a student there. During James’ college years at the University of Utah, he and Taylor recorded original music with the same Salt Lake City producer. James went on to pursue a law degree at BYU, where Taylor was finishing a degree in commercial music. All that said, it took an awkward, fledgling dating app to bring their paths together. And before they came together, those paths diverged. Taylor moved to Los Angeles after college, and James moved to Salt Lake City after law school. Unwittingly, they erased the miles between them when they joined a new dating platform. Taylor’s profile grabbed James' attention immediately, but Taylor is still puzzled as to why she “swiped up” on his. However it happened, the two matched, and James stayed in careful, intermittent contact with Taylor over the next month, hoping she would make time for him during a future visit to her parents' home in Salt Lake. That day came when Taylor rendezvoused with her family in Salt Lake for the Fourth of July before a long vacation. There was time for only a short walk, but this first date turned into a second before Taylor returned to LA. And the second went well enough to motivate James to buy a flight to LA only a few days later and eventually risk the peril of a long-distance relationship. But despite all the airfare, the weeks apart, and an unseemly number of hours on FaceTime, the next year flew by, and James proposed to Taylor at Los Angeles Historic State Park on June 30, 2018. With their early plans yet to be settled, Taylor and James hope to be swept along by the grace of unexpected events like the one that brought them together, in spite of nerves, distance, and a lackluster dating app profile.