Dan and I met 8 years ago at Amazon and didn't think anything of it. Within the first year I was there I got crossed trained on the ship dock and that's when I met Dan. Though I still picked most of the time. Over time we started talking more and then eventually ended up sitting at the same lunch table on breaks. We started getting closer as friends and were hanging out outside of work with friends a lot more. Dan became someone I could trust and would talk to about everything. I depended on him to be honest and give it to me straight. If you know Dan, you know he doesn't sugar coat anything. It was during my lowest time in my life that we had a heart to heart talk and Dan asked if he could come spend a day with the girls. As much as I knew he meant well and it would be good for them to have a role model like him in their lives, I couldn't allow that to happen. This went on for 3 years before I finally agreed to let him come down one day a week. Somewhere in the midst of the next year the close friendship we had built lit a spark. We started hanging out more and had nicknames for each other ("You Don't Tell Me" and "Kitty"). Dan sat me down for another heart to heart talk several times (like 4) to try and convince me that I shouldn't give up on dating again because of my past. That I just might be throwing away my chance of true happiness. After the fourth conversation on this topic I agreed. Long story short, we decided if the girls approved and liked Dan as much as they said they did we were going to give this dating thing a shot. Well, I guess we all know how that turned out.