Our story starts from us both receiving phone calls from mutual friends telling each other about one another. When I agreed to them giving Frankie my number, we stayed on the phone for hours at a time. We first meet face-to-face outside of Party City (I, Shakelia, was getting supplies for a birthday party and he met me there.) We went on our first date a couple days later to the movies to see Bad Boys for Life. Two weeks after knowing Frankie, I told two of my friends "This boy is my husband." The saying, when you know you know, is definitely true. A few months after dating, Covid happened and the world shut down, but that didn't stop us from continuing to date and getting to know one another. After 7 months of dating, we got our first apartment together and the rest is history.