How we met

It was Memorial Day weekend 2013 in Atlanta and my cousins were in town for our yearly guys trip. I lived in Atlanta but didn't go out much. My friend Barrington (Claudia's cousin) was set on dragging me out of the house because he was meeting Claudia and her friends at the reggae show that night. He described them as “hot like fire” so I had to go. After introductions at the show, Claudia looked at me and said, “hey I know you, you’re from Rochester”. I was shocked because I had never seen her before. At least I didn't remember. But I said ," Yes, how do you know." I didn’t even wait for her response before making a B-line towards her. We danced together a good portion of the night and had a great time. At the end of that night, as we were leaving with the company we came to the club with, I looked back and saw Claudia looking at me. I thought to myself, I have spent an entire night dancing with this lady, and I was not going to walk out the door without her number. So, I turned around approached Claudia and said, “Put your number in my phone.’ She replied with a smirk and a sassy remark, “Are you asking me or telling me?” I responded of course with, “I’m telling you.” She smiled and said, “I hear that”. A few weeks later through conversation we found out that I was at her house regularly in Rochester dropping off her cousin Lennox. But I never saw her because I never went in the house. I did however see her years and years before at Lennox's wedding and told my cousin Spongey then, "if her man ever messes up, she's going to be mine. " He laughed. It was almost fate that we are together. It was just meant to be. And we’ve been together going strong ever since.