I knew Nicole in high school but I left for college at WKU. I left after a semester and transferred to UofL and in the summer before Chandler Elizabeth Besser said to me “you should work with me at Tom Sawyer and date Nicole Kirby and fall in love and get married 10 years from now” and I said “ok sounds great”. And now here we are 😊

How we met (for real):

Nicole and I had a few classes together in high school and got to know each other through mutual friends. I thought she was really cute and tried to flirt with her, but I must not have been very compelling, plus I think she was kinda scared of me. Despite that, she’d still let me walk with her to her car after class.

After transferring from WKU to UofL early in college, my buddy got me a job working the ticket booth at Tom Sawyer Park. Who knew working a summer job at the pool for minimum wage was the best decision of my life? I worked in the ticket booth alone while Nicole and her friends ran the snack shack between sessions of hazing me as “Fresh Meat”. Nicole would visit, chit chat 80% of our conversation, and bring me candy – a tradition we continue to this day.

Summer ended and we started class again and I couldn’t let her get away, so we started hanging out. I was crazy about her, so I asked her to be my girlfriend, to which she said, “not until you take me on a real date”. I picked her up for a fancy date to Tumbleweed and Tinseltown, followed by 10 great years of “real” dates.

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