Nearly two years ago, we both found ourselves at a Portland nightclub. I (Maria) was dragged there by a friend from school who wanted to try to burn off some end-of-semester steam. Spencer was new to Portland and was out with the goal to meet some of his new Portland peers. Shortly after entering the room, Spence approached me and very kindly introduced himself, complimented me, and asked me to dance. I'm pretty sure I didn't stop talking the whole time we were dancing. I continuously asked Spencer all kinds of questions about himself, to most of which he replied with "WHAT!?" through the blaring music. This inspired us to move to a quieter room, and, eventually, to go to a new place altogether - Portland City Grill on the 30th floor of the US Bank building in Portland. There, overlooking a lit-up Portland, we finally had the opportunity to talk and things just clicked between us. I was completely lost in the moment with him...until I looked at my phone and saw a whole slew of messages from my friend who had assumed Spencer had kidnapped me. We quickly returned back, and, after she gave Spence quite an earful, convinced her that everything was more than okay. The three of us spent a little more time together before it was time for us to get home. Spencer and I exchanged numbers, and the rest is history. FOR THOSE WHO CAN’T ATTEND IN PERSON, we created a zoom link so we can still celebrate with you virtually: Click https://us04web.zoom.us/j/7304149481?pwd=ckZRYjgrdGcrVytnWVQzSzJqVmVxUT09 to start or join a scheduled Zoom meeting