We met while rotating during our first summer of graduate school, both assuming the other was a senior graduate student, until we awkwardly ran into each other at new student orientation. The early years of our friendship (and eventual relationship) were filled with video games and heated debates over whose turn it was to use the thermocycler or cell culture hood. Eventually, we decided that after all those arguments, the next logical step in our relationship was to make things official. That first attempt didn’t go far—Sean loved to drive on city streets with cruise control, which drove Yajing crazy. On their first vacation together, he also made Yajing walk for hours in chilly Chicago while she may or may not have been a little sick. Yajing did not like these things, and so we broke up soon after. We didn’t see each other much over the next year while Yajing was in medical school. But when she returned to the lab full time, we once again became friends. Over the next few months, we realized that Taylor Swift was wrong when she wrote her hit 2012 song “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”, and so we ended up getting back together. To keep the peace, we didn’t want our labmates to know we were dating, despite everyone already suspecting it long before we even started. Regardless, for the next two years we stuck to our story and denied everything. During that time, we played countless hours of video games, completely remodeled a condo, and went on adventures throughout Michigan. And every day we would go “have lunch with friends”, which involved the two of us eating lunch together in a neighboring building while watching an episode of Friends. Believe it or not, we even went back to Chicago and lived to tell the tale. We also graduated from arguing about lab equipment to arguing about more important things. Eventually, Sean moved to Boston for his postdoc, and Yajing stayed in Michigan to finish medical school and residency. What was supposed to be just a short time apart turned into 1,924 days of long-distance relationship. We do not recommend doing this. After picking out the ring while traveling in Japan, Sean asked the important question on the plains of Gansu, China. Unfortunately for Sean, who had thought long and hard about what to say, the question that came out of his mouth was “Can I put this ring on you?”, to which Yajing responded “Are you proposing?”. The answer to both questions was Yes, and that is why we have invited you to our wedding. Now, after years of growth, distance, shared memories, and subsidizing Delta Airlines, we are thrilled to finally live in the same city again—with our new puppy Zoe and our two cats, Little Kitty and Big Kitty.