We met on a fateful Wednesday night in February 2017 at Blarney’s in Dinkytown—on Ladies Night, no less—with “Love in a Hopeless Place” playing at full volume. Subtlety was never really part of our story.

What we learned later made it even better: we grew up just minutes from each other, had mutual friends at the U of M, and when we finally met, we were living only one block apart. Apparently the universe kept trying to introduce us until it finally worked.

Nine years and a giant golden doodle later, our worlds are fully intertwined, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.