From the very, very beginning. Let's travel back to the year 1991, a better time and place, when a mom running errands put her baby boy down on her favorite banker's desk at the old Fleet in Johnston. That was the day I met my first Piccoli woman and I've been hooked ever since.

Fast forward to 2002, it's a warm summer afternoon and Deb takes me on her coffee run to BJ's. I see a "smoking hot" young girl coming towards me and low and behold Deb knows her mom. Not shocking at all if you know my mom, the mayor. But come to find out, this is Jane, my very first babysitter from the bank, and her beautiful daughter, Jessica. I remember to this day telling my mom how infatuated I was with her friend's daughter that whole ride home.

It's 2005 now, and the new "Spanish girl" in school turns out to be that same girl from BJ's. Thank god she didn't get her wish to go to La salle!

Well fast forward through the casual friendship, to the love affair from Italy, our college years, Jess's time as a traveling PT, and finally to when COVID brought her home, we couldn't keep out of each other's path.

When all my friends who I never actually invited to come "cancelled" at the last minute on our hiking trip to NH, it all clicked. Through the highs of the NH 4k footers, the lows of Key West beaches (dump em out!), and that's our story. I love building this beautiful life with her and I know we both look forward to celebrating with you all, on May 10th! We know that will be a chapter for the ages!

Now how do you end a love story like ours? You don't :)

J&M

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