January 2nd, 2016: Hannah and Raimundo meet in Santiago, Chile and are quickly inseparable. Hannah was in a Teaching English as a Foreign Language class for the month of January.

January 8, 2016: The couple go on their second date, walking up Santa Lucía Hill in downtown Santiago. Hannah wore a skirt and ballet flats and hasn't lived it down since.

January 30, 2016: Hannah goes back to the United States for her last semester of university, she and Raimundo decided to stay friends but stayed in contact.

July 13, 2016: Raimundo comes to visit Hannah and her family in Michigan, USA for two weeks.

July 25, 2016: Raimundo asks Hannah to be his girlfriend and they become official.

November 6, 2016: As Hannah has graduated university and Raimundo has one year left, she decides to go teach in Thailand. She arrives in Bangkok to begin orientation.

February 12, 2017: Raimundo visits Hannah in Thailand during his two week school break; they see Bangkok, the island of Ko Kut, and Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai in the north.

May-June 2017: After teaching in Thailand, Hannah sees Malaysia, Vietnam, and Cambodia, and comes back home to work until Raimundo graduates university.

September 2017: Raimundo and Hannah meet again in Connecticut and New York City for a family wedding.

December 2017- January 2018: Hannah goes to Santiago, Chile for Christmas and New Year's.

February 24, 2018: Raimundo graduates university and finds a job, and Hannah moves to Santiago, Chile. Raimundo's family welcome Hannah to live with them while they look for an apartment, the kind souls.

** THE LONG DISTANCE STAGE IS CLOSED!!! **

May 20, 2018: Raimundo and Hannah move into their own apartment.

March 2020: The COVID-19 pandemic starts. Hannah's school shuts down for "two weeks" and the couple work from home indefinitely during one of the world's strictest lockdowns. Hannah and Raimundo can legally leave their residence twice a week to get essential items like groceries. It was a tough time to live in a big city in a one-bedroom apartment! As an elementary school teacher, Hannah meets nearly all her students' pets and sees all the filters known to man on her students during online classes.

December 31st, 2020: Hannah and Raimundo arrive in the United States, Hannah hasn't seen her family for a year. Thanks to work from home policies they stay for a month.

February 18, 2022: Hannah wears down Raimundo and they adopt an orange cat named Peaches. Hannah chose to adopt a cat and chose Peaches but the cat immediately latches onto Raimundo and Hannah is deemed the spare. Hannah reminds Peaches of her origin story every possible moment but Peaches has yet to care.

September 16, 2022: Hannah, Raimundo, and Hannah's parents Paul and Jane go to the Galápagos Islands in Ecuador. It is the equivalent of "July 4th" in Chile and Raimundo and Hannah have the week off of work.

September 22, 2022: Hannah's parents have returned home, and Hannah and Raimundo are hiking in a dormant volcano on Isla Isabela when Raimundo asks her to marry him. She said YES! Photo above.

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