We met because of UVA. Because Sarah randomly decided to move to Austin, and her friend Shannon set up a welcome week that included a UVA Club event. Eric still liked her even though she ordered a bowl of pasta sauce for dinner on their first date. There was a birthday party and a watermelon and multiple years apart. We reconnected because Sarah decided to randomly move to Alabama and get a PhD and Eric was already a doctor measuring cracks in the concrete of Bryant-Denny Stadium. And because we never unfriended each other from Facebook. (Because who does that?) So maybe it really was fate. Or Thomas Jefferson's ghost.