So a Northfield Townie meets a St. Olaf College Senior at a bar (The Contented Cow) the summer before her senior year. They flirt, they hang, they enjoy each other's company. And then, the College Senior drops the Townie like a box of rocks.

Pick up a year later, and the Townie gets a puppy. The College Senior's family recently got a dog too, and she tries to create a meet-cute for the two of them with their dogs.

Instead, a first date at the Mall of America (mid-point between Northfield and Saint Paul), meeting at the Home Plate of Metropolitan Stadium gave this love affair it's beginning.

5 years later, on a sunrise hike at Rattlesnake Ridge in Washington State, the Townie surprises the College Senior with a proposal to remember.