The fickle finger of fate and Dionysus played a major role in the meeting of Daniel J. Miller (DJMillz) and Alexander Liam Hemphill-Burns (Burnzy.)

Alex was directing a production of Bertolt's Mother Courage and Her Children, which brought the strapping young cowboy from Sugar Land, Texas to Philadelphia to play the oldest son and saber dancing heroic soldier Eilif.

Two nights after the production closed Daniel had arrived in his first New York apartment, and Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election. He also knew that he had left something very exciting and potentially important behind in Philadelphia.

Alex felt the same way. Three weeks later he was visiting Daniel in New York and took him out for manhattans and oysters underneath Grand Central Station, followed by ice skating in Bryant Park. He had never met anyone who made him feel quite as silly, wonderful and on top of the world the way Daniel did.

And of course it took the ice skate strapped Texan to lean over and reach his arm around the wobbly blade walking and slightly wasted Philadelphian's waist to whisper... "will you be my boyfriend?"

After an attempt to catch his breath, and thrown off by the giggle of delighted embarrassment from an on looking teenage boy sitting on the bench across the way, Alex said "Yes!!!" This set off a chain reaction of events spanning seven years and four continents... shifting earth's orbit off its course and further towards love, and leading Daniel and Alex to a celebration of marriage on August 3, 2024.

Photos

Lake Annis / Camp Mooswa

Activities

Port Maitland