Ann most likely met Brien in kindergarten at St. Mary School in Hyde Park, Cincinnati, Ohio. 1988 or 1989. They were definitely in the same homeroom in third grade, so they had to have conversed by that point. Right?

They for sure first danced together at their eighth grade graduation dance.

Remaining friends after grade school, they tried dating during their senior year of high school.

Brien visited Ann at Vanderbilt during the college years. They went to a moe. concert and celebrated Halloween together. As a point of trivia: Brien met the matron of honor, Ashley / Toddy at this point!

Ann moved back to Cincinnati in 2010 and even went as Brien's date to his cousin Scott's wedding.

They grew apart but stayed in touch.

In the autumn of 2022, Ann reached out to Brien, requesting a last minute ride from the airport. He picked her up and they grabbed drinks at Madtree Brewery that week.

He proposed to her at an airport motel in the shadow of Mt Shasta in Northern California exactly eleven months later.

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Hampton Inn and Suites Cincinnati Midtown