I’m going to make a loooong story pretty short here... Lazaro and I met in high school during my junior year (his senior year) and did not pursue anything more than friends even AFTER I TOLD HIM I LIKED HIM. But, anyways, let us fast forward a year... he is back home after graduating USMC boot camp and reaches out to me. I respond and we saw each other a handful of times during the two weeks he was home. Lazaro waited until the NIGHT BEFORE he left to JAPAN for 2 years to tell me that he liked me and wanted to give this a shot. I took a leap of faith for this LOOOOOOONG distance relationship and here we are now. We got married civically on January 7, 2021. We got a house in California because that will be home for the next 4 years. We have a kitten named Stormi. Now a night to celebrate on December 18th!