Tom and Trich met on a dating app called Tinder. You swipe left for "no" and right for "yes" and you can only talk to each other if you both have swiped right for the other person. They both swiped right and Tom wasted no time before he introduced himself. From there, the conversations were smooth and happy as they got to know each other. In the following weeks, they made plans for their first date. They met on a Friday night at a bar/restaurant. Tom did most of the talking as he described life in Wisconsin. Trich listened intently while also trying to decide how nervous Tom was on a scale of 1-10 (solid 8.5). After the restaurant, they went back to Tom's apartment complex so that Trich could meet his new dog Riley (although at that time her name was Reef Donkey and that's another story for another time). They took Riley to the local dog park where they sat and talked for hours, laughing at funny stories and learning about each other's lives. ******SIDENOTE: If you know anything about Florida, you know that when the sun goes down the mosquitoes come out. Well, that night Tricha had black leggings on and the mosquitoes had no problem biting right through the legging material. Needless to say, she spent the following week in recovery from insect bites all because she was smitten with a boy. Tom didn't find out about this fact until about a year later and man did he have a good laugh.***** Anyway, they were pretty much inseparable from that moment on. Since then, they have moved across the country to Phoenix, Arizona, they adopted a cat name Weasley and a dog named Mushu, they renamed "Reef Donkey" to Riley because....obviously. They purchased a house by South Mountain in October 2017 and they love each other more and more every day. ....And that's our goofy little love story! Thank you so much for taking the time to read it. We hope to see and/or speak with you soon! CHEERS!