Larry and I each moved to northern Virginia after college to start our work careers in Washington, D.C. According to Larry, we first met at a friends' house watching the final episode of "Cheers". I guess I made an impression. Alas, I don't remember meeting him until a mutual friend formally set us up. We dated briefly in 1994/1995 but I wasn't sure and we broke up.

Fast forward 18 years and Larry bumps into that mutual friend on the D.C. Metro (subway) and says he thinks he saw me recently. She responded that that couldn't be possible; that I had moved away and had been in New York State for years.

Undaunted, Larry asked this friend to put us back in touch. Apparently I'd been on his mind for years! Thankfully, I had had an epiphany a few months before this about what I'd missed out on, so when the friend called to ask me if she could give Larry my contact information, I said without hesitation "absolutely!"

And, the rest, as they say, is history. :-)

When Larry and I got back in touch in February 2012, I was living in Westchester County, New York (just north of New York City) and he was still in Alexandria, Virginia. After a few weeks of "will he or won't he call tonight" anxiety on my part, we ended up with a fixed 8:30 pm nightly phone call.

I traveled to Washington in April 2012 for our first re-connection meeting. Fear and nerves nearly overcame me yet again. But I relied on my belief that God had a plan for us, and by that summer we realized we were in love. Numerous trips to each other's homes as well as meeting in the middle in Philadelphia and Wilmington, Delaware followed.

In 2015 I started looking for jobs in Ohio. Larry had moved back to his hometown of Columbus, Ohio about a year earlier. In late December I had an interview with Bowling Green State University Libraries. I was so thrilled the next month to be offered the job.

There are still two hours between us, and our call is now at 7:30 pm, but when Larry suggested in April 2016 that we could get engaged "any time you want" I politely demurred and said good night - only to call him back within 5 minutes to say "let's do it". We made it official with a ring in September.