Lucky and I met back in the spring of 2017 while on a mindfulness and meditation retreat. I was doing my PhD at Cleveland State University and being one of those stressful months I decided that I wanted to take a break, do something different, off the beaten path, and probably go to a place where no one will bother me let alone meet and fall in love and thus enrolled for this mindfulness retreat. Luckily for us, Lucky had the same idea and decided to participate in the same retreat at our campus, the same perfect day and place, to get away from it all. Sometimes I sit back and think for a second about the number of coincidences that put us both together. Coming all the way to united states from different lands, to the same city, the same location, and that same weekend. Not to mention, in order to have any shot at a serious relationship after the retreat was over, we had to live relatively close to one another. It turned out we were just a mere 30 minute drive from each other. And the coincidences continued to unfold. We kept bumping into one another after that at restaurants, basket ball games where we had nearly adjacent seats, the cavaliers vs warrior NBA watch party and once opposite tables at the same bar to watch the 2018 soccer world cup. We became really good friends and over time, we began to cherish our conversations and time together. The rest as they say (no matter how cheesy it is), is history!