Two years ago today, a girl with bottomless blue eyes and dimples that frame a beautiful smile laid next to me on a tiny bed in her room in Richmond, and giggled when I suggested we change our Facebook relationship status to “in a relationship”. She looked back at me when I said that, those gorgeous eyes sparkling and those dimples becoming more pronounced as her smile widened and threatened to split her face in two. She said “okay!” and jumped up, bounced over to her computer, and made things official. At that moment, the course of my life changed forever.
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