One of my childhood best friends, Macy Martin Rhodes (giving her credit bc she deserves it;) told me she had a friend from Mississippi State that she wanted me to meet. At the time, I didn't know she had also told John David the same thing about needing to meet me. During the summer of 2017, I was with Macy and a group of our Philly friends at the Mccool fair cabin (pre Neshoba County Fair). I saw John David awkwardly staring at me so I asked Macy if that was the guy she wanted me to meet. Sure enough it was, so Macy introduced us to each other. Let me just say it was definitely not love at first sight... A little over a year passed without seeing or talking to him again. During the fall of 2018, we saw each other in Starkville while in town for a football game. After talking to him and getting to know him a little more, I finally decided I was interested and a couple of months later, he FINALLY asked me out on a date. Our first official date was in Starkville sometime in the beginning of January 2019, and I knew quickly after our first date that he was the one! Side note: I used to say I could never marry a Mississippi State boy, so never say never ;)