We were in our 20s when we met through our mutual dear friends Sam and Miriam. It was the late nineties/early aughts: think Fernando's Hideaway, Aura, and Berbati's Pan. Black Butte Porter and cosmos. We were starting our lives, dating other people, and on different paths.
Years later we reconnected through the very same friends that introduced us. And on a cold November night during the pandemic lockdown, more than 20 years after we first met, Tony proposed spending the rest of our lives together...and Carmen thought that was an excellent idea.