10

Once upon a time a boy and a girl went to the same high school, but never talked to each other.  Then on the first day of their senior year...they did.  A bit.  Sporadically.  Then for some strange reason (since they only talked sporadically) the boy asked for the girl's email address right before they went to different colleges.  Then they started emailing.  Not sporadically, but regularly and soon every day.  I think the girl might have been a little lonely for home.  And it is easier for her to write things than to talk to people in person.  So they ended up talking (writing) about everything under the sun...how they felt about a variety of topics, what they wanted their lives to be like, the number of kids they wanted (not together of course).  They were just friends.  Sort of.  If emailing a person counts as friends.  They both dated other people and before long the year was over and they were both in the same town again.  The girl said it would be fun to do something together.  Maybe a movie?  The boy took this idea and ran with it (as he usually does)...and planned a trip to Columbia to see a drive-in movie (and go to the mall and park and everything else).  Spending a whole day with someone you have never spent much time at all with could be very awkward.  But it wasn't.  It felt completely normal.  Like they had known each other forever.  The girl thought to herself, "Oh THIS is what it is supposed to feel like."  She had never had so much fun with a guy before.  They could talk forever to each other.  They thought the same things were funny.  The both liked doing silly things like playing on playgrounds (which is lucky because they do a lot of that now).  Somewhere in that year of emailing they had become best friends.  He understood her more than anyone else.  They just clicked.   They made sense.  About a month later they started dating.  Four years later they got married.  Two kids and ten years later, here we are.

And there still isn't anyone else I'd rather spend the day with.

our first picture together