We met at Gracemor Elementary when we were just eight years old. We were " boyfriend and girlfriend" before the end of the first semester of school that year. Of course things ended as young love does. However, we "dated" again in middle school and then again our senior year of high school. Shortly after graduation life took us our separate directions. Then in April of 2017 while Jessica was looking through old photographs at her dad's, she came across some from the year she and Chris met. It was her first boy/ girl birthday party. She posted them on Facebook and started tagging everyone she could, thus rekindling her friendship with Chris. By July of 2017 Jessica and Chris were regularly spending time together although they didn't officially begin dating until Jessica's costume party 30th birthday in October 2017. From then on out the rest is history. As Jessica's late grandma Millie said "This was always meant to be, it just wasn't the right time until now!" You see this isn't the first time these to families have been connected. Chris' mom, Cindy Pipes, grew up in Pleasant Valley with Jessica's dad, Lee Starr, and his siblings. Jessica likes to believe that these families were meant to be connected through her and Chris.