The two of us

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Ryan lifting Maddie on the Brooklyn Bridge walkway, both laughing

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It started, romantically enough, in an Econ class at NYU.

From there it was the soccer team and the baseball team, packed shoulder to shoulder into one too-small New York apartment after another, pregaming for a big night out in the East Village. Somewhere in all those crowded, windowless apartments, a friendship grew.

Then came Covid, and everyone scattered. After both moving back, the city was still half empty and hardly anyone was in town. Except, as it turned out, each other. A chance encounter, and the rest is history.

Five years later, and a lifetime to go.

Maddie and Ryan laughing on a brownstone stoop beside a red door
Ryan on one knee beside the pond, laughing, as Maddie, wrapped in a Boston Marathon finisher's blanket, looks at the ring
Ryan in a navy blazer and Maddie in an orange dress on a sunny green lawn
A windy selfie on a rocky point above a deep blue sea
The couple on a terrace at sunset in Santorini, a white domed chapel behind them
The couple reflected in the round mirror of a scooter on a brick-lined street
The couple at the rail of a boat at sunset, the sea glowing behind them
The couple on a deck above a lake at sunset, mountains behind
Ryan lifting Maddie on the Brooklyn Bridge walkway, both laughing
Ryan walking up a street of orange, red and pink buildings with green shutters
The couple dressed for a black-tie evening, the lower Manhattan skyline at dusk behind them
Ryan carrying Maddie in front of the Parthenon in Athens
The couple smiling in the crowd outside the Rose Bowl stadium
The couple sitting on sunlit rocks above the ocean
Maddie climbing over rocks toward a bright blue cove
The couple hugging on a whitewashed village lane with blue shutters in Greece
Ryan carrying a laughing Maddie at a party