Our Story
Our Story
The Boy/Girl Next Door
March 1995: Tyler moves in across the street from Jesse.
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1995 to 1999: Childhood memories to last a lifetime...family vacations, beach days, laughter, bike rides, neighborhood potlucks, bonfires, fights, shaving cream slip and slide, backyard camping, nerf wars, time-outs, board games, video games, H-O-R-S-E, tears, fort-building, pizza parties, sleepovers...
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1999: Parents say no more sleepovers. We couldn't figure out why?
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2000-2010: High school. College. Different lives. See each other during breaks and holidays. Still close but not like when we were kids.
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Summer 2010: Both dating other people but somehow spending more time with each other. Tyler agrees to help Jesse move to Seattle. One 17-hour drive, 5 built pieces of Ikea furniture, 2 trips to Costco, one poorly planned ferry ride, one hitchhiking experience, 3 'Man vs. Food' restaurants, and countless coffees later, Jesse starts to look at Tyler a little differently. Apparently so does Tyler.
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Fall 2010: Jesse moves to Seattle, starts pharmacy school, and talks to Tyler on the phone every day. Internally she is trying to pretend that she has not developed feelings for her 'brother'. But mostly she's just freaking out. Apparently so is Tyler.
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One drunk night at the end of 2010: Jesse calls Tyler and tells him she has something to say but is too scared. Tyler says he thinks she knows what she's going to say because he feels the same way. Jesse makes Tyler say it first...just in case.
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2011-2012: They decide to date but not tell their families in case it doesn't work out. Two years later we thought maybe we shouldn't keep it a secret anymore. Dropped the bomb on Christmas Day. Whoops. Sorry mom and dad!
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2012-2016: Distance makes the heart grow fonder? Four different states, 1 master's degree, 1 doctorate, two residencies, an internship turned job, many frequent flier miles, countless texts, and many long, lonely nights later, they decided enough was enough. Tyler proposed. Jesse couldn't say yes fast enough. Together they moved back home to start their new life; back to where it all began.
Best Friends
Best Friends
He Proposed
He Proposed