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Elaine & Stefan

June 16, 2017 • Kenwood, CA

Elaine & Stefan

June 16, 2017 • Kenwood, CA

How We Got Here

If you're looking for the juicy details, you've come to the right place.

In the spring of 2011, two people in places far away from one another both made a decision to attend Northeastern University. They each decided, independently, to attend a college far away from both of their homes. Neither had any close friends going with them. These decisions mystified their friends and family.

Both arrived at the school a week before classes were due to start. During a mandatory (and boring) Honor's Program activity, they found themselves looking for something to do. One looked to his phone. The other looked at what the person next to her was doing. As fate would have it, they were seated next to each other, and after the activity concluded, they began to converse in a friendly manner.

Though their conversation would eventually be cut short by previous commitments (and a comical misunderstanding), they would run into each other again later that very same night in the dormitory. Fortuitously, the two had been assigned rooms on the same floor, only three doors away from one another.

The two began talking, and one thing lead to another, a phrase which here means "they discovered they had a lot in common and decided to spend lots of time together". Eventually, after a few weeks, they would start dating.

Fast forward approximately five and a half years to today, and the two young scientists are still together. Their relationship has survived many tests (they both had a lot of exam-heavy classes), as well as some periods of time spent apart while one or the other was traveling around Europe. And they are in love and have decided to get married.

Here's the twist: I've actually been talking about us this whole time. This is about Elaine and Stefan, the people who the website is named after. I bet you weren't expecting that.