We matched on the Bumble dating app. I responded to his request to connect with a Rihanna gif. He asked me what was my favorite Rihanna song and I told him. I replied by asking him if his name was really Baraka as I have never seen anyone other than the former president with that name. He laughed and said yes his name was indeed Baraka and he lived in Hawaii too and that he has been told a lot of time about his striking resemblance to the former president. We talked a few days on the app and exchanged numbers. I was visiting London at the time and couldn’t see him in person so we talked on the phone for hours at a time everyday for the next 3 weeks. When I returned he planned a date, came to pick me up and he remembered that my tire needed air and asked to go fix it before he could drive me to the date. That melted my heart. The date was mini golf lessons, we had lunch after that and stumbled upon a concert on our way to the beach and danced and shared our first kiss. We share a lot of mutual interests and connection in a lot of things and we knew we were meant to be. We have been inseparable ever since and on January 17th 2026 he proposed to me on the Queen Mary.