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August 9, 2018
Philadelphia, PA
#hopkinsoverthebroom

Renelle & Todd

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Todd Hopkins

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Renelle Smith

#hopkinsoverthebroom

August 9, 2018

Philadelphia, PA

How They Met

Before he called her Punky Brewster

Todd and Renelle met in Philadelphia, PA while she was student teaching and he was substitute teaching. He remembers her being eager, yet scared of inquisitive five year old children and blindingly colorful! She remembers asking him for help with some of her lessons and clumsily bumping into the kitchen door that both of their classrooms shared, on more than one occasion!. Snack time wasn't complete without Ms. Renelle's hip connecting with a waist high swinging door. After she moved on to her second student teaching assignment, they did not keep in touch and assumed they wouldn't see each other again. Six months later, they met again! Todd came to work for the same non-profit school and noticed that Renelle was still a burst of color in any room. However, it was her unapologetic laugh and similar dry sense of humor that he found most intriguing. Renelle soon realized that she was the only one who understood his jokes and side comments at meetings and that he "got" her. Shortly after their first date at Copas in 2014, Todd and Renelle decided to embark on this journey of cacophonous laughter, trips, spills (mostly on her end), art and love.

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