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+# Laurel & Don #
+
+Laurel and Don met in March of 2010 when Laurel was working on her
+Ph.D. and Don was a postdoctoral researcher at University of
+California Riverside. Laurel was at a party at her friend Juliane’s
+apartment when this tall man with dark curly hair walked through the
+door. But Don had just worked a long day and hung out for only a
+little while before falling asleep on the sofa.
+
+Laurel and Don would meet several more times at other parties, and
+enjoyed talking to each other about books and hiking. Several of their
+friends commented on how natural they looked together, but they had
+reservations about dating. They had talked about enough topics to
+learn that they had some serious differences in opinions and life
+perspectives. On one particular night in July, as the group was
+walking to the Pizza Port restaurant from the San Diego Beer Fest,
+Laurel asked Don without any lead-in, “You know why we can’t date,
+right?” and Don replied, “It would never work.”
+
+After almost a year of being friends, Laurel and Don knew each other
+much better and Laurel decided that she would like to try dating Don.
+Although it almost certainly wouldn’t work because of their
+differences, Laurel enjoyed Don’s company too much to not try. Don was
+thinking similar thoughts, but remembered very well the conversation
+when Laurel had told him they couldn’t date and didn’t want to offend
+Laurel by bringing up the idea.
+
+A month of amusing awkwardness followed, where Laurel would choose to
+sit next to Don and talk to him and Don would freeze-up like a deer
+whenever Laurel smiled at him or touched him. Eventually Laurel was at
+a loss of how to flirt anymore and was seriously wondering if Don
+didn’t know she liked him or knew full well and didn’t feel the same.
+Don, in the meantime, was very confused because he thought Laurel was
+flirting but couldn’t reconcile that to their previous conversation.
+
+At another party, Don’s brother Mark happened to be in town. Late into
+the night, Laurel and Mark were playing the card game gin and Laurel
+gave up and asked Mark for advice. Mark answered that Don would never
+make the first move to date someone, so Laurel should ask Don if
+that’s what she wanted.
+
+A few days later, Laurel was hanging out with Don and others at the
+Getaway bar on campus and offered to drive him home so he wouldn’t
+have to walk. Seeing no better option, Laurel dove in and asked Don
+what he thought about dating. They talked for almost an hour about how
+that would work. Don was hesitant because he worried about it ending
+poorly and messily, and added, “I abhor drama.” But eventually they
+decided to see what happened.
+
+Almost immediately, life clicked into place as if they had always been
+together. While Don had been hesitant about dating, he was the first
+to say, “I love you”, after 5 days. Laurel needed to be more certain
+and waited a few months to say the same. After 3 years of great road
+trips, crazy Ultimate Frisbee tournaments, and cozy nights at home,
+they started talking about marriage. Don wanted to know why they
+couldn’t be non-traditional and Laurel could ask Don to marry her, but
+Laurel replied that she had asked him to date her and now it was his
+turn.
+
+The weekend before Christmas of 2014, Don asked Laurel to go on a
+weekend trip to Pismo beach, a favorite place of theirs on the coast
+of California. Taking a walk along the beach on the way to dinner,
+they stopped to watch the sunset. Don asked Laurel, “Are you willing
+to put up with me for a while longer?” and Laurel mischievously
+replied, “How much longer?” Don replied, “For the rest of our lives.”