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Pete sat behind me in Sociology class in 2012 at Mount Saint Mary's University, the first semester of freshman year. I remember thinking that he would ALWAYS raise his hand and agree with whatever point I made, and one time he walked me back from class and I was left thinking "wow that kid talks a lot". Sophomore year Pete announced to his roommates that he "saw Julie Rose in the Laundry Room wearing sweat pants. That's the girl I'm going to marry one day". Word got back to me through mutual friends and we began hanging out and quickly realized how well we got along. I always felt like I had known him my whole life. We went on to sometimes be friends, and sometimes not. We remained casual friends until he moved two blocks away from me in Canton, after many nights hanging out on my stoop, and a quarantined Easter dinner, Pete kissed me on my deck and once again there I was, Hook Line and Sinker for this guy. I love him so much and I always have.

I met Julie freshman year at the Mount. I remember I walked into Sociology 101, a class I had no clue what it meant. I recall thinking she was so cute and having just the biggest crush on her. I was so annoying that I would agree with all of her answers whenever she raised her hand, by raising my hand just to say I agree and rephrase what she said. Then, I (tried) to start up the trend of walking with her after class, where she most likely thought I was a creep. But! I really was just trying to get to know her. There was something about Julie that was so magical from the first second. The phrase “love at first sight” is definitely the way to define this. She just didn’t know that she loved me yet. I would always tell my friend (who was friends was her roommate) all of these compliments and nice things about her “not expecting” the information to make its way back to her. Come to find out later, all of those things did make it back.. which could have gone wrong, but somehow she found it a bit endearing. Fast forward quite some time, we ended up living two blocks away from each other, and realized that there was no way we could just be friends. Julie has always had such a special place in my mind and my heart, and I will forever remember the first time I saw her. I knew she was the one.