Payden and I both graduated from Amarillo High School in 2013 and while we knew each other there and had a few classes together, we both ran in different friend groups. We didn't really interact much other than when I got glared at one day for asking the teacher if she was going to pick up the homework (yes, I was that student!).

Fast forward 5 years or so to 2018 -- he was the assistant coach of my sisters club soccer team along with one of his groomsmen, Logan Tiffany. We got reacquainted again during his time as Kali's coach since I went to her games occasionally when I had time. After a weekend in Dallas for soccer I had a message from Payden that said "I had a lot of fun this weekend, we should hang out again and maybe get dinner or something." I was in PT school, he was living in Amarillo working and coaching. I was busy beyond belief with school but it just so happens that the week he contacted me i had NOTHING for school so, we went to El Tejavan on our first date on November 2, 2018! I have since learned that he was encouraged by one of our good friends, Lorraine Wilhelm, to send that first message to me because "what could go wrong?" So thank you to the moon and back Lorraine for sending me my person <3

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