The short and easy of it would be to say The Bar but that simple answer couldn’t adequately express the emotion, times both happy and sad, and now kids, plural, that our relationship has endeared and become.

The not so short of it all started ten years ago when Country Line dancing was still all the rage. Back then you would have found both Ryan and Alecia following the same circuit of local watering holes. Chances would have it that he would eventually step on her toes which would set off a course of events that has led to the current 9-year relationship filled with both happy and sad tears.

Much like any other life event, there are interactions throughout the course of your life that you are unaware will have an affect on you in 1, 5, or even 10 years. While the chance encounter of Ryan stepping on Alecia’s toes (or so she claims), seems arbitrary or lucky, neither of us would have met, if it weren’t for each and every interaction leading up until that point. The bartender or $2 bud lights at Joe’s before 9, past relationships, States Grill, and every chance or unconscious decision leading to that moment.

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