Chip and I have known each other since we were little. Chip is two years older than I am. I can remember Chip hanging out with my older brother over at our house all the time and seeing him around the ballparks. We would always wave to each other in the halls at Madras Middle School, but as Chip entered high school, our paths crossed less and less.

My freshman year of high school, and Chip's junior year, I received a direct message on instagram from him asking for my number and snapchat. This started it all.

Throughout high school we always kept in touch and would hang out occasionally. Our casual "hang outs", or dates one might say, would consist of seeing any new movie in the theatres, getting dinner, going on an ice cream run, and an occasional tennis match. Even as we were both in college and the times we were home at the same time became rare, we managed to keep in touch with one another.

After I graduated from college, I was working in Alabama, and Chip was working in Atlanta. Chip and I began to talk more and more frequently, having longer and longer facetime calls, and he became one my best friends and one of my favorite names to see on my phone.

Finally after so many years, our friendship developed into something greater than we both could have ever imagined. Many people say this had been a long time coming, and I think we both would agree with that. Our story was all in God's timing, and we are so grateful that He placed us in each others' lives so long ago.

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