If you are reading this, you are someone that we love and cherish. That, or you are someone adjacent to someone that we love and cherish, which means that love and cherishing extends to you as well. About our story: well, what is there to say? We had chemistry; that is to say, we had chemical engineering; that is to say again, we had material and energy balance class; that is to say for the last time, that I was her TA for material and energy balance class. Allison and I had been studying at the University of Kansas (Rock Chalk) for nearly three years before we started dating. During the time leading up to this, however, we were both undeniably busy. We spent most of our schooling hours in the engineering building, either studying in the common area, in class, or in our respective labs. The likelihood that we would come together, these celestial bodies of myths not yet come to pass, walking past one another multiple times a day, spending a whole semester in one of her classes as her TA, or working in labs only two halls away, it’s clear our union is nothing less than astronomical. But alas… Three cheers for Theta Tau, the professional engineering fraternity. Our catalyst, in dork terms. Finally, we could discuss topics other than homework answers and thermodynamic equations; we could discuss philanthropy events and professional development. She quickly became invested in Theta Tau, and by the time the semester had finished, we were invested in each other. A whirlwind of a honeymoon phase dropped us at the doorstep of Covid-19 and the lockdown. During this time, I graduated from KU and began floundering in an unforgiving job market. Ever impulsive – as is my right – I accepted a job in Portland, Maine. Allison, upset by this – as is her right – and assuming it was my way of ending the relationship, decided to do so herself. Fortunately, I am rather cute and after months of watching shows over FaceTime and texting incessantly, I agreed to take her back. We spent a year and a half of long distance while Allison finished her undergraduate degree. She spent the summer with me in Maine, the most wonderful summer I’ve ever had. There was no discussion after that, no drawn-out conversation about the living situation, it was her and I, together. Together in Maine, and then together in Florida. Allison began her graduate program at the University of Florida in the fall of 2021 and I officially became a Floridian that November. Shortly after, we bought our house, and I bought a ring! Life since then has been a blur. Allison has made incredible progress toward her PhD, completing her qualifying exam, and being hired this summer for an internship with Dow Chemical. I have kept busy with projects at work and of course videogames. We began the relationship unaware of how our lives and feelings would develop. A mutual interest in chemical engineering and a desire to make the other laugh was all we had when we began. She is my best friend, and it makes me happier than I could have ever imagined that she has promised to spend this incredible and wonderful life with me. We set the date for this fall, October 19, with every intention of making the marriage official four days later, on October 23, also known as Mole Day, a day of great significance. Don’t believe me, ask your local chemical engineer. She is to be my wife and I her husband, and all will say it is so.