It was a balmy day in 2017, serving tables and slinging drinks. I glanced up to look at the door and in walks the cutest version of Dora the explorer I'd ever seen. Dumbfounded, I couldn't find the words to speak. Eventually we became friends, best ones at that, but alas, starcrossed lovers would be on hold due to circumstances at hand.

Fast forward to 2022, I get a message from Haylee asking how I've been. Presently in Charleston, I had to break the news to her that I wasn't just around the corner. That didn't matter though, because 8 minutes later I had plans to come home to her.

From that weekend on, I spent the next 5 months trekking back and forth 5 hours each way, every other weekend. Creating memories and experiences in her neck of the woods, and mine in the Palmetto State. With this underway, our relationship bloomed, spread its roots and blossomed into the everlasting fever dream we are living in today. Now we have two dogs and a wedding on the way. <3

-Hunter

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