Joju and Rebecca first met at some point in Spring 2012. It was so notable a meeting that neither of them remembers it happening. He had just moved to Los Angeles after finishing college and she was a senior in high school. The time was far from right. Fall 2016: They connected in earnest for the first time at a church youth group dinner where Rebecca made the (inadvertent) best move to catch Joju's attention: she asked for some movie recommendations. They talked for a while and he recommended "Captain Fantastic", not expecting much followthrough. But a few days later, she messaged him and said that she watched it and really liked it. He proceeded to reward her with a list of 21 more recommendations. He then did not hear from her again for about a year. Presumably, she was catching up on his recs. Fall 2017: Rebecca was taking a gap year and finally had time to catch up on all the pop culture she had missed out on as an overachieving premed and embark on something resembling a journey of self-discovery. It was around this time that Joju reached out to her again (ostensibly) to see if she ever watched those movies and learned that she mostly had. He then recommended another 15. This time, fortunately, she didn’t run away in horror. They ended up talking fairly regularly over the next month or so about life, music, travel, food and yes, more movies. Over this span, he started to realize that there might be more to his interest in her than simple friendship and he decided to get a sense of whether the feeling might be mutual. She suggested going to a concert for a band he had never heard of and he leapt at the opportunity, thinking that perhaps this meant the feeling was mutual. What he hadn’t accounted for was the fact that, until recently, Rebecca had been completely unable to fathom that members of the opposite sex could be interested in her romantically. So instead of having a potential first date, Rebecca invited a friend to tag along. This sweet (and infuriating) display of obliviousness drove Joju crazy but he managed to salvage the situation by inviting a friend of his own. Nevertheless, his excitement (and hope) dwindled. The night of the concert came. Rebecca, always the planner, arrived at the venue early to pick up tickets and save the group a spot. When Joju told her that he would be soon arriving, Rebecca realized that she had somehow lost his ticket in the one hour since picking it up. Joju arrived just as the doors were about to close. Fortunately, the box office attendant remembered Rebecca from earlier and took pity on her, recognizing the developing chemistry between these two friends better than Rebecca did. The attendant printed another ticket and the two weaved through the crowd to meet their friends. Despite the rough start, Rebecca and Joju had a great time together (even with the third and fourth wheels present). In fact, it went so well that, for the first time, it started to dawn on Rebecca that there might be something more happening here as well. Reinvigorated after the unexpectedly fun night, Joju managed to get some tickets to another concert through a friend and wasn’t going to take any chances this time: he immediately made clear to Rebecca that he “could only get two tickets”. This time, she got the message. After a hike with some friends in the morning, they headed to the concert together in the evening and finally addressed the elephant in the room. She impressed upon him that med school was her priority (he loves to remind her of this fact) and, after making sure he understood that, they agreed that *this* was going to be a “thing”. Since then, this “thing” grew and flourished, with each of them finding more and more to like (and, on occasion, dislike) about the other and their love growing steadily. Over time, it became clear that they wanted to be together for the rest of their lives and that their relationship warranted some significant leveling up. And that’s what brings us here…