I met Cameron in the fall of 2014 when he came over to our family’s house to hang out with my brother Brad— it was not love at first sight. He was incredibly loud and I quickly wrote him off as just one of my younger brother’s annoying friends.

A few years passed, I graduated from Grand Valley and he moved to Big Rapids to attend Ferris State. I didn't see him often, except in the summer when our friend group would take tubing trips down the Muskegon River. Several times we were the only ones still awake by the end of the trip and I found him easy to talk to…and kind of cute.

Over the course of these summer tubing trips, I would nonchalantly arrange the tubes so I could sit next to him. I should’ve noticed it was pretty easy to do since he was secretly trying to sit next to me too.

One June night in 2021 after a party at my house, the two of us stayed up and talked until five in the morning. I sat so close to him on the kitchen counter hoping he would kiss me but he didn’t. The next morning I texted him and asked if there was something between us. He answered back he thought there was, so I asked him, "What are you going to do about it?" He replied, “Take you out on a date.”

A little over two years later, on a beautiful October day, Cameron and I went for a walk in Grand Ravines park where he asked if I would spend the rest of my life with him. I happily said, “Yes.”

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