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I first met Steph on orientation day before 8th grade right after I just moved to Hong Kong. I was instantly attracted to her bubbly cheer and her inviting personality. I had a crush on her on and off throughout the next couple years. We didn't really get to know each other too well until we sat next to each other in our Biblical Ethics class in 10th grade, where we spent the majority of the time playing phone games and napping. She drew me in with her wittiness, her deep care for others, and also I thought she was really pretty. Our friendship developed over the next year and eventually started to blossom into a romance when we became lab partners in Forensics. That led to us spending a lot of one on one time together where she finally started falling for me. I had already fallen for her long before that. We started "dating" after I confessed my feelings to her on the train station platform by our school on November 14, 2014. Our story continued up and down throughout the next 9 years as we took on the challenges of long distance, university, and growing up with and without each other. As university students, we could only afford the time and money to see each other twice a year, and we treasured every moment we had with each other. Our love persisted through the storms and sunny days, and led us back to Hong Kong on that same train platform on April 19, 2024. There, where it all began, I asked Steph to spend the rest of our lives together. Steph, I can't wait to continue growing with you for the rest of our lives.

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My first impression of Caleb was: quiet, dorky, and sweet. He was that new student in my Hong Kong 8th-grade class with a holographic dolphin folder, portfolio of funny quick-witted comebacks, and a harmonic voice to my friend's Taylor Swift love ballad performances on makeshift drum set desks at the back of the classroom. He was that "good" kid in my high school homeroom that ACTUALLY slept before midnight, and kept me accountable to sleep earlier. He was the guy who sat next to me in our 10th-grade Biblical Ethics class, helping me solve puzzles and unlock new levels of a game on my iPhone 3 during "study time". He was even my Forensics lab partner in 11th grade, where I grew to realize how much we shared in humor, interests, and even backgrounds. It was where I began to notice how much I loved his quiet but grounding presence, as he cared for those around him. He was that bold kid on an empty train platform, walking home from school on a Friday night, who confessed his feelings for me. And was that headstrong, hopeful romantic who fought, and daily continues to fight, for the preservation of our love and relationship, through two years of high school dating when people would tell us those relationships don't work out, five years of long distance between Canada and the US along with a difficult pandemic, and three years of finally moving back to the same city, to readjust and reaffirm the love we had in one another. Through every stage of our love and lives, Caleb has always reminded -- and continues to teach-- me, that while the only constant in life is change, the love that we have grows as we do.