We had no idea back then, but that's where it all began. Samuel and I first met in kindergarten, sharing the same classroom from those early days through elementary school. Back then, we were just classmates who didn’t know each other beyond the classroom. Years passed, and life took us on separate paths. Samuel's family moved to the U.S., mine moved after that. Surprisingly, we lived just five minutes apart without ever crossing paths. It wasn’t until college that our paths finally intertwined. As freshmen, we unknowingly shared the same bus rides to school—me heading to Eastern Nazarene College and him to UMass Boston. I saw him a few times, but we never spoke. Our story took a beautiful turn in the summer of 2017. It was at a church where we officially introduced ourselves and started talking. Since that day, we’ve been inseparable, cherishing every moment together.