Connect How did your love story begin?

We met in fourth grade grew up in Brooklyn New York together. We dated in middle school, we were supposed to go to the middle school prom together, but I gave my ticket away to a friend thinking I could get another one and I didn’t. I waited outside the prom for her until it ended and then her mother said she had to go home. In high school I became a big superstar athlete playing baseball thinking I was too cool and Nikki wasn’t feeling it and we kind of went our separate ways and…

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

She ended up moving to Florida her senior year and we lost contact for many years. Then tragically both my parents passed away in February 2008. Out of nowhere that Mo Nikki sent me a message on my space and we reconnected. I actually happen to be going to Florida for a friend’s wedding. So we arranged to meet up down there after the wedding Nikki happen to be coming back up to Brooklyn because her mother just had a child, and she had a new little brother when she moved back up…

What would you do with $20,000?

She never moved back down. I proposed to her in our old fifth grade classroom with our old fifth grade teacher present in the room. We got married in Williamsburg Brooklyn we currently live in Deland Florida, and have two beautiful girls who are sensational softball athletes. Sorry I didn’t answer these questions completely right but I had to tell our story.