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In 2018, Tatum worked on a production of Rock of Ages, where she met the first of the Harrod family, the assistant director and Dalton’s oldest brother, Ronn. At the time, it felt like nothing more than another theatre job, but little did Tatum know these joyful rehearsal room moments with Ronn would come back into her life in a such a major way. The following summer, Tatum performed in Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma’s summer stock season, where she met Richard Yoder, Dalton’s tap mentor, who would unknowingly become a key player in this story. Later that summer, Tatum was cast opposite Dalton’s youngest brother, Kellan, in Titanic (yes, they technically kissed first). Somehow, despite spending an entire summer working alongside Kellan, Dalton’s name never once came up. When the Harrod family came to see the show, Tatum unknowingly met her future in-laws for the first time, but one Harrod was missing, Dalton, who was recovering from a longboarding accident in the city. In August 2019, Tatum packed up her life and moved to New York City. Her very first job was teaching tap on the Upper West Side, thanks to a referral from Richard Yoder. Almost immediately, another thread clicked into place, Dalton’s mom, Cyndi, ran the musical theatre program at the studio. Which happened to be the same studio where Dalton grew up dancing. At the same time, halfway across the world, Tatum’s best friend Hannah, who had also worked with Kellan and Richard the previous summer, was studying abroad in Glasgow, the same city Kellan had just moved to for university. One night at a pub, Hannah ran into Kellan, who spent the evening telling story after story about his older brother, Dalton. The next morning, Hannah called Tatum and said, “Have you ever heard of a Dalton Harrod? Because I think you should date.” Almost impossibly, the very next day at work, Cyndi stopped Tatum in the hallway to ask if she was single and open to being set up with her son. Numbers were exchanged, and a first date was set for Friday, October 11, 2019. From the moment they met, something felt easy and electric, like taking a deep breath or returning home after a long trip. Tatum and Dalton met at Union Square, shared dinner, popped into a jazz club, and talked their way all the way up to West 86th Street, completely unaware of the hours passing or that their feet were very much not prepared for that kind of walk. Within their first six months together, Tatum and Dalton survived bedbugs and the beginning of a global pandemic. Somehow, they laughed through it all. They quickly discovered they shared the same kind of weird, the same sense of humor, and the same instinct to meet chaos with joy. When Tatum first told her parents about Dalton, she described the relationship as “easy and exciting.” Years later, that description still holds true. Looking back, there were countless ways they could have met, and almost did, long before they actually did. Every near-miss, shared connection, and crossed path points to the same truth, somehow, in one way or another, they were always going to find each other. And the rest, as they say, is history.