We met in the summer of 2019. It was a breezy August night and Zach was sweating more than usual. He says it was due to the humidity, but if you were to check his text messages from that day, it’d become very clear it was because of his excitement at meeting Rachel. When Rachel saw Zach, she thought, “Who let this guy out with glasses so crooked?”

The date went well. The second date went even better. The third, fourth, and fifth went from good to great to amazing. Over the next five years, we moved into two apartments together. Survived an evil landlord and BQE traffic out our window. We bought a house in the Catskills and a beat-up Subaru that’s stalled too many times on the Verrazano. We added two cats to our family, and we can’t go an hour without asking, “What do you think the boys are doing?”

Zach has made Rachel listen to ungodly amounts of Bob Dylan, and Rachel has made Zach learn an encyclopedic number of squid facts. But now Zach can tell you that a squid's brain is shaped like a doughnut, and Rachel has a definitive ranking of every version of Bob Dylan’s “She Belongs to Me.” And if that’s not love, we don’t know what is.

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