Well that started a long time ago actually. You couldn't tell by looking at me now, but in High School I was a state champion powerlifter. The few of us in the high school that competed were well known. At the time, my wife knew who I was, but I didn't know her yet.

Then in junior college, she started working next door to where my mom worked and would talk to my mom on breaks. Again, she saw me around the JC campus, but I still hadn't met her. It was shortly after that she started dating a friend of mine and I got to know who she was.

Well, I went off to Kansas State University (KSU) while she went to Emporia State. I came back for summer and got a job renovating a hotel. She was working at the front desk of said hotel so we would see each other and smile and wave. By this time she had broken up with my friend.

After college, I went about my life until a mutual friend invited us to his birthday party. I drove back and both of us were there. She saw the car I was driving and wanted a ride so I took her for a drive and then we went about our lives.

When I got back to where I lived, I was cleaning my car and found an earring. I called around and couldn't find who it belonged to so I called her and asked if she had lost an earring. She said that she hadn't, but it sounded like one she had so she checked her purse. Lo and behold, she actually had lost an earring.

I said I would mail it to her and we talked about hanging out. So we got together and there were some crazy misadventures before here we are, 15 years of marriage and counting.