Before their love story began, Kim and Mark grew up a town apart from each other their entire lives without even knowing the other existed. They frequented the same stores, spent time with friends in Huntington Village, and probably even walked past one another at track and field meets during high school - but their paths never crossed.

After high school, Mark attended Stony Brook University while Kim went onto a small private college down in Delaware called Wesley College. After two years of being away from her family, Kim decided to transfer home and attend the college of her dreams since she was a little girl - Stony Brook University.

While Mark commuted to campus, Kim stayed in a dorm to help lessen the stress of everyday life as a college student. Frequenting the same places on campus like the SAC, the Wang Center, and the stacks in the library - again, their paths never crossed.

After graduating college, their lives continued on with different paths. Mark went on to work for an accounting firm called Baker Tilly, while Kim went to work for a well known ophthalmology practice on Long Island called OCLI. Unbeknownst to them both at the time, fate would have it that the practice that Kim worked for just so happened to be Mark's main client.

Their lives just seemed to be a bunch of coincidences, never once bumping into each other. That all changed a few short years later when they both decided to give love another shot, downloaded a popular dating app, and found themselves with a notification.

**Ding** 7/29/19 Tinder: You have 1 new notification. **Opens Tinder** "You have a new match!" After small talk turned into longer conversations, Kim and Mark started to realize that their lives, upbringings and values were very similar. Which only made them more interested in wanting to get to know one another.

As time went on, Kim and Mark fell more in love and knew that all the coincidences in their lives confirmed that they were meant to be together. Little did Kim and Mark know that swiping right would lead to forever.