We met in middle school in IT class as partners in a project. We both remember this day like it was yesterday. We began to form an unbreakable friendship that flourished over many years and throughout adulthood. We stayed in communication as we each walked our own paths of life. We then reconnected in the summer of 2018 and went on our first official date. Our friendship did not change one bit but there was a little extra something in the air. We both say we fell in love on our first (real) date that year. A feeling both of us hold on to and cherish. We were inseparable that summer of 2018 and this is when we thought, "Okay. This could be something." It sure was, and forever will be.