A brief synopsis of how we got together. To quote a Jedi master, "There's always truth from a certain point of view."
Russel's point of view:
I was in-between relationships and feeling not-quite fulfilled in my choice of female friends. I was working a full-time job at a call-center trying to pay back student loans and I met a cute girl who just started interviewing. She was a blonde-brunette and she caught my eye. I gathered the courage to speak up and ask her some questions about herself and her family and we became friends pretty quick. It wasn't long before I invited her to accompany me with my friends in our saturday morning or friday night sci-fi fantasy games. Soon after that, a school dance was on the social calendar and I asked her out. I found out her family lived out where my great-family relatives used to live and picked her up from the old family house. We had a wonderful time dancing - I taught her a few ballroom dancing steps I learned at school and from my mothers instruction. Soon after, she became busy with college classes and we lost contact when I advanced in my job. She sent me an email when she decided to leave Idaho and go serve a mission in Colorado and I attended her farewell. I left my job at the call center for another job at a security company and she and I emailed each other occasionally. Her dad saw me regularly at my new job and apologized for any hard feelings and for any misgivings he may have outwardly shown for his eldest daughter and my courtship. I empathised with him as I feel highly protective of my only sister and he invited me to visit their family a few times in her absence, which I took him up on. My continuing relationships hadn't blossomed like I'd expected, so I felt a change was in order. Before she returned I was invited once more to her homecoming reunion, and we picked up almost where we had left off - playing games together, reading stories together, working together. And we just clicked. Maybe it was a handful of months after she returned that I started a new job working for a new call center some miles away and I'd finally got the courage to propose to her, and she accepted me with all my strengths and all my weaknesses. We made plans to get married & sealed in the temple nearby, and life has been up and down ever since but blissful throughout with her at my side.
Sarah's point of view:
Russ has told you a lot of what has happened, but I will fill in the blanks. It started when I graduated high-school. I was a lost grad student, and I had no idea what I was doing. Looked at a couple different colleges and jobs and decided that I'd fill out an application for a call center job. It paid a lot better than most other jobs and they didn't care what kind of job experience you had, as I'd had very little. I quickly discovered that I hated my job, especially being yelled at over the phone by people I'd never met. After 3 weeks of this torture, I started praying about whether I should look for another line of work and felt that I should stay. I had no clue why as this was really frustrating. A week later, Russ asked me out on a date to a sandwich shop and I felt like an impolite slob since he was a total gentleman. I kept wondering why he didn't talk - because of his silence I felt like i needed to talk even more. I've come to realize he was just nervous and is a natural listener. (He can talk your ear off if the subject arises!) As is written, he invited me to his weekly group of gaming with his friends and it became our weekly "date". I started to get nervous after about 2 months - I must admit that his age had something to do with it. I kept thinking "He's ready to settle down and get married, AND I'M NOT!" Solution: I got enrolled in a year of college. Followed by a mission, and then I felt ready to settle down. And guess who was there a week after I returned? And that is how we met.
So with some Miner (pun intended!) editing between the two of us, we've come to a consensus as how the story of how we got together goes.
And as Paul Harvey commentates, "And now you know - the rest of the story!"
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