Emma claims she does not remember this but the first time I met her, we were in 8th grade and I was going to math tutoring after school. I was walking back from the vending machine with a bag of chips and Emma was the class president so she was after school doing her president stuff. When I walked by her she said hello, grabbed my bag of chips, and kept walking. I didn’t even know how to react so I just watch her turn the corner and keep going.

Fast forward to high school, me and Emma were both late to our first class of the year and got stuck with sitting beside each other. We slowly started actually getting to know each other and we became really good friends and would hangout outside of school a good bit in group settings. After a while I started falling for her but I didn’t know how to communicate that to her or if she even liked me back. Finally, after we had been spending time together with just each other, I mustered up the courage to tell her how I really felt and asked her to be my girlfriend. Thankfully she said yes. We both ended up going to Georgia Southern and our first year we lived less than 100 yards from each other so we could walk over and see each other whenever we wanted. Emma and I had the best time ever at Georgia Southern and made great friends while we were down there. We were always going to events and hanging out with people while we are down there and I’m so thankful that we both went to Georgia Southern because it made our relationship so much stronger with us being in the same place during our time in college. Emma graduated before me and we have been doing long distance for the past year. Now that we both graduated I knew it was time for no more long distance and for us to live happily ever after. Emma is a wedding planner so I knew it was going to be difficult to make plans with her on a Saturday to surprise her with the proposal. I got in contact with her coworkers at Sea Island and asked them to give her a Saturday off without making it suspicious. With the help of her amazing friends we successfully surprised her and are so excited for what is to come. We can't wait to have all of our friends and family in one place to celebrate!

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