Picture this: It’s the 4th of July. It’s probably 1997 or something like that. Sarah and Joey are definitely under 10. The Leavitt’s had been spending the holiday in Washington, D.C. However, due to the sweltering heat, their plans to watch the fireworks in D.C. were foiled. The friend the Leavitt’s were staying with mentioned a great fireworks show in Baker Park - a beautiful little park in Frederick, Maryland.

Cut to Sarah’s family: The Biggs’ spend every 4th of July watching the fireworks in Baker Park. What an amazing coincidence! Little Sarah is gleefully staring into the sky watching the fireworks. Little Joey is gleefully staring at a funnel cake before he begins devouring it. He can’t take his eyes off of the sweet treat while he’s walking. He bumps into the loveliest little girl with the most killer bowl cut. They lock eyes. They smile. It's the beginning of a perfect love story.

Isn’t that magical? Well, it’s mostly false. Actually it’s pretty much entirely false. The Leavitt’s did watch the fireworks in Baker Park that year and the Biggs’ watched the fireworks in Baker Park at least once. As for the two of them running into one another? If it happened, it clearly wasn’t that memorable to either one of them.

Sarah and Joey first met in 2018 as full grown adults (neither one of them with a bowl cut) at a music rehearsal for It’s a Wonderful Life at the Titusville Playhouse. They played cousins in the show. Yeah, we know, gross. During rehearsal, Joey looked at Sarah while she was looking somewhere else and Sarah looked at Joey while he was looking somewhere else. They both felt creepy but did it anyway. After the music rehearsal, everyone took chairs from the stage back to the dressing rooms. Sarah and Joey had an adorably awkward exchange in the hallway by the dressing rooms as they couldn’t figure out how to get past one another.

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