HOW WE MET

I first met Jon towards the end of my freshman year of college. We both went to college in Boston but were at different schools. One of Jon’s best friends from high school went to my college and Jon was visiting that weekend. That night, I ended up at a dorm party with a few girlfriends in what turned out to be Jons friend’s dorm room.

Now, this is Jon’s favorite part of the story. He had just come back from studying abroad in Australia, so he had on a University of Queensland Australia sweatshirt on. I saw him down the hall and thought he was a really good looking, tall, blond guy, how could he not be Australian? I walked right up to him and asked him if he was Australian. Sadly the answer was no, but we hit it off anyway and continued talking. The night went on and it was a typical college party night.

Due to the fact that we went to different schools and only met once at a party, we didn’t keep in touch after that first night in March. I actually ended up dating someone else later that semester and it wasn’t until June when we reconnected.

Jon was on Facebook one day in June and saw me tagged in a photo with a guy on his club hockey team. Turns out this person is best friends with my cousin and I grew up hanging out with my cousin and his friends. Jon asked his teammate who I was because he remembered me but he didn’t remember how he knew me. Once his friend mentioned that I went to Bentley, it clicked. He friends me on facebook and we started chatting on there.

After a week or two of texting each other every day, Jon took me on a date on July 13th, 2014, on the Cape after being at his friend’s house for the weekend. That date was it for us. We knew we had something special. We considered that date our anniversary for the past five years because all it took for us was one date to know we were it for each other.