We like to joke that we met right when we had both almost retired from the dating scene. But it only took one date—tennis, tacos, and ice cream—to realize maybe we each had one more chance left.

What was supposed to be a casual night somehow turned into the longest first date ever… mostly because neither of us wanted it to end. One “let’s grab food” turned into “okay but dessert?” and somehow we just kept going.

Now we often find ourselves asking, “Why couldn’t we have met sooner?” But looking back, all the waiting and detours were just paving the way to each other. What we didn’t know then was that night would be the start of everything we had been waiting for.

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