Pearce and I were best friends for a very long time. After a few years of denying our feelings for each other, overwhelming opinions of my friends saying he was 'the one,' and a lot of time spent together, we decided to just see where things would go.

A few weeks after getting back home from the HCC annual beach trip that Pearce attended with us in 2022, we were inseparable. And we have been ever since. I couldn't imagine it any other way for the rest of my life.