Ruth started a journal when it all began, and her first entry is this.

“He called me tonight. I thought he made a mistake, so I texted and he called me again. He asked me if I wanted to hang out. I asked him ‘what does that entail?’ And he responded with ‘like a date?’…so we are going on a date. This is wild.”

To put this in context, they had seen each other through mutual friends quite a lot. Mitch even helped Ruth and a friend move into their new apartment. Ruth never thought anything would ever happen between her and Mitch because they had meet years prior in college. How she had seen it was that he was Mitch, and she was Ruth. So she didn’t try to put on a front, or be who she wasn't - she was loud and awkward. So when he called, she didn’t think anything of it and thought he was mistaken. When he asked to “hang out” she was so taken aback and confused! It didn’t make sense! But sometimes the greatest things in life are gifts that don’t make sense in the beginning.