Michelle Victoria Klobukowski born Sept 20, 1992 in St. Mary's hospital in Chicago, IL.

Daniel Edward Ishu born just a year before April 10, 1991 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Chicago, IL.

Why am I telling you this? To understand how we met, you have to understand where our lives both began and how they came full circle.

As a young adolescent girl, I always thought about the person who I was going to be with. What he'd look like (I was hoping for a man with dark hair, handsome...) how we would meet, what our wedding would look like. I feel like most young girls thought this way, but I can't believe it's happening now. If you would've asked 13 year old Michelle if this is how things would end up, she probably would've laughed even though some of her romance dreams were far fetched!

So imagine, the love of your life lived in your hometown until you were in first grade, and you never crossed paths once. Until......

Danny growing up as a kid traveled with his sister Sabrina back and forth to Chicago for regular visits and alternating holidays. I can imagine how rough that can be at times traveling alone without your mom and dad, but I'm glad he continued to come visit his Chicago family.

The first time I met Danny, he was just on my screen on an app most of my friends and I use(d)...Tinder. I figured no way in hell am I ever going to meet my future husband on this website, but I'll talk to this guy for fun and see where it goes. Of course most of you know how the app works, swipe right if you like someone, swipe left if you don't. Once you swipe right, a wave of anxiety crashes down on you in hopes that ty he person that you swiped on feels mutually about you solely based on looks and a 140 character message.

Our conversation started out as they usually do, "Hi, I'm Daniel.Nice to meet you. How is your evening?"

From there the conversation kept going for quite some time. I swear we were up until almost 3 in the morning chatting. I learned about his recent accomplishment of graduating undergrad, his dreams of becoming a lawyer, and some day a judge, I even learned about his love for Star Wars. (Forgive me dear I should know more about those movies...)

By the way this conversation all happened on Christmas Eve...He finally says, "Hey I'm in town for a little while yet, I'd love to go out sometime. (Er something like that) So we set to meet the day after Christmas.

We decided to meet the day after Christmas. It was a Monday. For some reason I felt the need to get a car wash which if anyone knows me or how I keep my car... why? In that time though I was still uneasy about our date and honestly thought about cancelling. It was a first date in a while. I figured this guy lives in California. How would this even work? Should I bother?

I swear he is the nicest guy. As I was waiting to get my car washed I gave him a call. He picked up sounding happily surprised. At the moment I just wanted to chat with him. Hearing his voice, seeing if it was sexy or even calming. If he was just as sarcastic as I was. In that moment, the conversation felt comfortable as if I knew him for a long time. I knew in my heart I had to pursue this date and really try to get to know him.

Our first date was in Rosemont at Park Tavern. We sat had a drink, some dinner and great conversation. I learned that night that Danny had a fascination with German beers, lucky Hofbrahaus was right next door and we drank a beer as our night cap.

This was the best first date I ever had, but I kept wondering, how would I continue to see someone all the way in California? I never flew on a plane by myself. I don't like flying, but I REALLY like him.

So that next week Danny was in town, we decided to what I like to call, "speed date" In just a week, he met my mom, my grandma, and some of my friends. I wanted to make sure I got a thumbs up from the people who meant the most in my life, and to make myself feel less crazy that I was going try to figure out something to keep whatever this was at the time going.

At the end of the week before he left he asked me to be his girlfriend. Of course I said yes, and I told him I would come visit soon.....

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