Connect How did your love story begin?

During the lockdown in 2020. My wife had passed in 2018. I was a little lost, drinking too much. WAY too much, trying to survive the grief. I had met Abby a little in the Lake Geneva social scene & I was dating the wrong people for me. My Mother took charge Xmas that year, folding her hands over her big tummy. "I think Abby has WAY more to offer you than these other women you're dating." Abby spent Christmas with us, I never looked back. We've been together ever since. Mommasaurus Rex was right

What is your favorite memory you've shared as a couple?

Wow... that's tough... we've had plenty.... but I think it was when we had to drive down through a dangerous blizzard on 2-94 into the South Side of Chicago, Abby white knuckling it on her first real car trip with me to clean up my Mother's body, she had dropped dead in her kitchen right after New Years, January 2021... It was crazy... we ended up in the parking lot of Aurelio's pizza in Homewood Il., still locked down, eating pizza in the car with fat snow flakes falling down all around us

What would you do with $20,000?

Buy Abby & I some new friggin' glasses, fix the crack in my windshield lol, pay off a bunch of the real estate taxes on our family home, buy some presents for a bunch of close friends that are way over due, sock some of it away for a rainy day & take Abby & I on a real vacation, yes, a real vacation not a working 1 to pay the bills vacation, a real damn vacation away from wi-fi where we can spend some quality time together, enjoying white sands & each other.