Para Siempre

Vanina and Christopher met in the summer of 2015. Christopher had gone to Atlantic City to have a ‘guys night’, where he met Vanina working. The two hit it off and Christopher shot his shot- smoothly taking her phone and putting his number into her cell, with his first, middle and last name, to be precise. Vanina was in a relationship and leaving for Europe later that summer, so the two went their separate ways and never saw or heard from each other again. Fast forward to summer of 2019, Chris came to Atlantic City for another ‘guys night’, where this time he’d be introduced to Vanina as his server in the nightclub, yet again. The two were immediately in ‘awe’ over one another. They stayed up all morning talking after her shift and got breakfast together (still not recognizing each other). Before Christopher left, he asked Vanina for her phone number. A few days went by until a message popped up on Vanina’s phone from a “Christopher Joseph Clemente”. This seemed odd considering she never asked for his number nor put it in her phone... so how could she have it saved? The two tried to understand this phenomenon until they were forced to remember their brief encounter five summers prior. And just like five summer’s prior, Vanina was settling into a new relationship and leaving for Europe, yet again. But this time was different, and Christopher persisted on not letting this opportunity of the two getting to really know each other pass them by. The two quickly realized the beauty of their timing and the magic of their comical love story. Over the next couple of years, Vanina and Christopher would experience countless adventures, move in with each other, survive a world pandemic, buy a new puppy, get engaged, buy their first home together and have their first son. God and the Universe works in magnificent and mysterious ways, and the phrase, “When you know, you know”, has never been more true for these two.