Sasha and Adlai both moved to (or, in Adlai's case, back to) Atlanta in the fall of 2014 to start graduate programs at Emory University, and they first met each other that spring through friends at Atlanta's famous tiki bar Flip Flops (RIP). A few weeks later, the two ran into each other again at a health care graduate student mixer after which Adlai gave Sasha a ride home, and Sasha spent a solid hour talking about Samoa (where she had lived for a year) and HIV research. Adlai thought Sasha was interesting. Sasha thought Adlai was a good listener. Their first date was when Adlai came over and made Sasha homemade chocolate chip cookies (he had to bring his own mixer), and their second date was going to the Cheesecake Factory and the Tesla store. Since then, Sasha and Adlai have lived in Atlanta, Boston, St Louis, Myrtle Beach, and New Haven, and travelled to many states and explored countries like Costa Rica, France, and Brazil. After years of trying, Adlai finally taught Sasha to love skiing tree runs, and on January 8, 2023 it paid off when he proposed on one during Sasha's annual family ski trip. Sasha and Adlai look forward to their next adventure, tying the knot in Cartagena, Colombia in January 2024. After that- they're excited to make their next big moves together!