We met in 2006 when we were 14 and quickly became best friends. He had feelings for me throughout high school and into college, but I always saw him as a brother and he was just my best friend. Then one day, for my birthday, he took me to a practice room at his college and played the piano for me and sang to me, a song called Endlessly, and I realized I loved this man too. We started dating in 2019, got married in 2022, went through IVF together and welcomed our daughter in 2025.

As silly as it may seem, there was a night when we were in the weeds of our infertility journey, where I was emotional, and we went for a walk next to this pond when the sun was still setting, and we laid on the grass together, and had a very heartfelt talk about how we were both feeling, and that we were going to get through this together. We never blamed the other one, but constantly remind each other that whatever comes our way, we will handle it together. And this sums up who we are.

We would love to use that money to pay off a good amount of debt we have accrued, so that we can work on growing our family, as we would love to get pregnant once more and would likely need IVF to do so again.