Despite attending the same elementary school, Rak and Natasha didn’t meet until high school in 2012. They had both joined the speech and debate team, a precursor to the many debates they’d have in the years to come. They had mutual friends, but didn’t pay each other much attention throughout the 4 years. They made cameos in each others’ milestones, notably Rak coming to Natasha’s 16th birthday, and Natasha insisting that the announcer pronounce “Rakshit” correctly during his Senior Year Awards Ceremony. (Note: in trying too hard to get it right, he butchered it even worse than he would have without Natasha’s input). It wasn’t until Rak went to UCLA that they started to become closer friends. They spent all of Winter Break together in 2014, when Rak asked Natasha to meet him for dinner. Natasha wasn’t sure that it was a date because he arrived with a bouquet he called “Friendship Flowers,” but by the end of the evening they both admitted to being interested in each other. It took them a lot of tries to be in the same place, doing long distance for 7 years: LA-to-Bay Area, LA-to-San-Luis-Obispo, LA-to-Durham, Seattle-to-Washington DC, SF-to-Prague, and SF-to-Seattle. They shared their lives through Skype, eventually FaceTime once Rakshit got rid of his Windows Phone, and texting. They finally share San Francisco as their home base with their labradoodle Charlie. Rak proposed to Natasha in Santa Barbara, where they used to meet half way in between UCLA and Cal Poly.