This is the summarized version of the story of how Stephanie and I met, fell in love, and decided we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together. The full story is way better. Go to this link to read the whole thing: tinyurl.com/TeamQuinlanLoveStory I first met Stephanie in 2009 when we served as missionaries after college with a Catholic group called NET Ministries. We were placed together as the co-leaders of our team. As I got to know Stephanie more and more and worked closely with her over that year, an attraction and a hope for her to be my girlfriend sometime after NET began to develop. When we finished NET, we departed as very good friends. I did not know how or when she would ever become my girlfriend, but I knew that if it was God’s will, it would happen somehow. The path for us to get to the point of being a couple took six years from that point. Over those years, we lived in different states, almost always separated by great distances. About half a year after we finished NET, we did reveal that we had feelings for each other. However, the timing was not right, and so our relationship did not progress at that point. Most of those six years, therefore, were just spent as good friends who kept in touch. Internally, however, I continued to hope that Stephanie would one day be my girlfriend. That day came in May 2016. That was the day I formally asked Stephanie to be my girlfriend. I was living in California studying to become a teacher and she was working with Catholic World Mission in Georgia, so we started as a long-distance relationship. A little over a year later, when I finished my program and got a job in Georgia, we were finally able to live near each other. I asked Stephanie to marry me in April of this year. On Nov 3rd, we will be united in holy matrimony. That woman I met in an airport in Minnesota nine years ago will no longer be my co-leader, friend, girlfriend, or fiancée. She will be my wife, and I cannot wait. #TeamQuinlan for life!