Both of us happened to attend the FDNY Columbia Association Annual Cigar Night event at Vetro. Ralph was invited by his friend Anthony and I was there based on my volunteer work as a NYC Columbus Day Parade Coordinator. We happened to be “friends” on Facebook several yeaew before we met….and depending who you ask you will get a different answer (Ralph will tell you he “friended” me because he thought i was related to the Carusos that lived across the street from his mom 🤣). And that was his pick-up line when he spotted me in the room, “You’re my Facebook friend” to which I responded, “Yes” thinking as I recalled we never met but would virtually like each other’s photos and comments. We spent the rest of the night talking and getting to know each other taking the photo below as our first “official pic”. We kept in touch for the next few months and officially went on our first date in October. Ralph asked me out around my birthday in September but the timing never worked out, so after he took a back seat, I ended up inviting him out that October 4th to watch a Giants Game at Bourbon Street and since then we have been attending a million events ever since!