Even though Dane and Marissa grew up in the same small town, their paths somehow never crossed. Their only “interaction” was back when Marissa was a freshman and Dane was a senior. It was second‑semester study hall in the cafeteria, and Marissa was having a private conversation with a friend friend (maybe a little too loud). Out of nowhere, Dane climbed up onto the cafeteria table, crawled across it, dropped down between the girls, and jokingly told them to shut up or he wouldn't graduate. Then he scampered back to his seat and that was that. It wasn’t until they matched on Tinder—of all places—that they actually met. And from that moment on, everything finally clicked into place. It seems almost unfair sometimes how it took nearly forty years and a dating app to finally find each other — but in the end, we found our soulmates right on time.