It started in Spain, of all places. I was in high school, traveling abroad with my orchestra, and somewhere between the music and the cobblestone streets, I met Adam. We became friends first. Genuinely, easily. The kind where you just click without really trying. There was no grand moment, no lightning bolt. Just a boy who made me laugh and a friendship that felt effortless from the start. Then the trip ended, we flew home, and life went back to normal. After the trip ended and we flew home, I figured it would just be a fun memory. But Adam had other ideas. He drove to visit me every weekend, without fail, and somewhere in all of those visits we became genuinely close. We would FaceTime every night for hours. The kind of conversations where you look up and somehow it is 2am and you do not even care. I did not have a word for what we were yet. We were just us. And then one day, without any big announcement or defining moment, our friendship grew into love. It was the most natural thing in the world. There was always something about being around Adam that just felt easy. He was goofy and funny and completely himself, and I loved that about him almost immediately. I am just as ridiculous, so it worked. It still works. We had this comfort together that I had never really felt with anyone else. The kind where you can be your full, authentic, genuine self and never once worry about it. That feeling became everything to me. During Covid, I transferred to UMass Amherst to go to college with my favorite person. College together meant growing up together. Figuring things out side by side, building something real without really stopping to name it. It was never a question of whether we were serious. We just always knew. Then came our Rome trip. We were still in college, no grand plan, just the two of us in one of the most breathtaking cities in the world. While it wasn’t our first international trip, it was my favorite. Mostly because he proposed with the most beautiful ring I have ever seen in my entire life: an amethyst stone in a vintage floral setting, antique and romantic and so completely me. I said yes without a second thought. Honestly, it felt inevitable. Like of course it was him, of course it was there, of course it felt exactly like that. We came home engaged and somehow even more sure of each other than before. Then on the day I graduated from UMass Amherst, we loaded up a car and moved into Boston together. Same day. Diploma in hand, boxes stacked to the ceiling, the whole thing equal parts chaotic and perfect. Looking back, it could not have happened any other way. When you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. (From When Harry Met Sally) Our story has taken us from a high school orchestra trip in Spain to the streets of Rome to a home we built together in Boston. It has been adventurous and comfortable and genuinely so much fun. Adam is my favorite person to laugh with, my favorite person to be around, and my favorite person full stop. I cannot wait to marry him.