Our story started a couple months before actually meeting. I saw Jamie on campus at Starbucks and instantly thought he was so cute. I even asked the barista what name she wrote on his cup so I could try and find his social media accounts. He was essentially a ghost online. I saw him a couple more times that semester around campus but couldn't brew up the courage to talk to him. Fast forward to the following semester, we matched on Tinder, went on our first date, and never stopped seeing each other after that!
Our first date and first time meeting was at Septemberfest in Louisa, KY in 2022. Tyler Childers was the headliner and since Jamie was a big fan, I lied and said I was also a big fan. It was about an hour from where we lived and my dad called me on the ride there. I told him that I was on a date, an hour away, with a boy I had never met, in a small town in the middle of nowhere. His response was "Well, don't end up on a True Crime documentary". I would say it all worked out, Dad.