Jonathan and Lauren met for the first time at a debate camp in sophomore year of high school. All Jonathan remembered of that encounter was the well-delivered joke Lauren made about her height one day at lunch. Lauren remembered Jonathan as "the redhead kid from debate." Other than a few chance encounters at homeschool events, their lives continued on separate paths until they ran into each other at college orientation, when Jonathan walked up to Lauren to ask, "so, how was the rest of high school?" After an hour-and-a-half game of war, a tournament competing as partners in debate, late-night rounds of spicy uno, meals together in the caf, and hours of conversation by the water (where Jonathan would later propose), Lauren and Jonathan finally admitted that they liked each other. Nearly eighteen months of dating later, he asked her to marry him and she said yes.