We met at the right time. During the COVID-19 pandemic, of course. Both of us had taken a pretty long hiatus from dating and had just begun dipping our toes back into the dating scene. We met on a dating app called Hinge, which if you aren't familiar with, has a tagline: Designed to be Deleted to encourage actual relationships. Vince commented on a picture of Linda smiling with braces wearing a mask that had a clear window. Vince said something along the lines of, "Is this mask for us to see your pretty smile?" This led to an easy and comfortable conversation where we set up our first date at The Buzz Mill in East Austin! While driving over, Linda happened to see Vince through her car window walking into the cafe, and thinking that this was going to be it! The date went astoundingly, so well in fact that although we both had commitments later that evening, Vince found himself admitting to Linda that he didn’t want to leave to go to his Settlers of Catan game night with friends. We ended up hanging out the next day, and by the end of our second date had decided that we didn’t want to date anyone else!