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How is the story of how we melt…. er…. met!

The very first time I was introduced to Mr. Caramel was inside our university library during our freshman year. I was meeting a mutual friend of ours to study for an exam, and I remember in particular that Mr. Caramel was doodling sketches of Wolverine. I didn’t know at the time, but he was a Wolverine fan in high school and can make his hair look EXACTLY like him! (see below)

I didn’t really think anything about him for awhile until we ended up church hopping together, and I noticed that he was very funny and witty.  He had this humor that was mostly funny because he made fun of people in a very mean way (it’s still the same!). 

When a few of us new freshmen ended up getting plugged into the same college church group, we both became regulars and saw each other often. He mostly hung around a couple older classmates while I ended up bonding more with my fellow freshies. He got involved leading worship with his wonderful voice and rock ’n rock guitar, while I was more involved in leading small groups of women and dancing.

We were just friends who sometimes chatted online every once in awhile and goofed around a bit, but it was purely platonic. I even had a serious relationship in college with a mutual friend of Mr. Caramel. However, by the end of our senior year we had grown closer than we had been before. I kind of felt that sometimes he would be overly nice to me or go out of his way for me, but I usually assumed that it was all in my head.

One interesting thing happened one day when I called my best friend to tell her about my week, and I laughed over a funny incident that happened to involve Mr. Caramel. I was cracking up on the phone, but my she was silent. After awhile, she paused and said “You like him, don’t you?” I’m always defensive and immediately went “WHAT?! Mo?!?!?!” But she said something that stuck with me in my head, even to this day. She said “I don’t think it’s funny, but you only think it’s funny because you like him.” After months of denying this, and thinking she was crazy — I do believe that a part of that fact was true.

To make a long story short, Mr. Caramel and I talked and decided to try it out. We immediately hit it off and I was very surprised to see how intensely my feelings changed for him in a matter of days. We had been such platonic friends for so long that I was unsure of how I could feel about him romantically. Well — no problem there! We had great semi-awkward dates filled with excitement and nervous tension. It felt like I was dating a whole different person!

My church t-shirt wearing musician friend was now my lova who would go out of his way to be wildly romantic to me. All my cynicism about love and romance flew right out the window, and I immediately knew that this was the most different relationship I’d ever had. It was the first relationship that was instantly serious and we both acknowledged that we were heading for marriage.

After about 1 year, we so immensely wanted to get married that we were both very anxious. We wanted to spend every last minute together and I, who never wanted to get married early, thought seriously about how life as a married couple would look. We both got great jobs and moved to the LA area — and most importantly (for us) we found a great church.

In January ’07, we started to make plans for our 1.5 year anniversary. We went to visit Hearst Castle and soon I started to feel like… this could be the weekend. Of course, I tried not to expect too much or anticipate it, just in case, but I had this gut feeling…

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