The Love Files

Long before campus life, Toby and I had unknowingly been part of “award winning” dance groups✦ that later became a bonding point for us. At Ashesi, our story picked up speed. We barely spoke in freshman year, first semester, but by ASC week in second semester, Toby asked me to be his twin for twin day✦ — and that’s when we really started talking.

He would walk me to class, ask to study with me, make us watch the stars, and even had me eating cereal with him at 4am because of how long we would spend chatting.

In the years leading up to my Toby proposing to me, I had my fair share of moments when I knew I wanted to be this man’s wife. During one of them, I cried bitterly (definitely not one of my demure moments 😂) over my school capstone project, and not once did Toby waver in his presence. He just sat, holding me—still and patient.

Days turned into years as we built our companionship and our certainty of finding forever in each other. I can’t believe I almost missed one of the best memories of my life when I initially decided not to take a walk along the beach✦, which ended up being where he proposed (to be fair I was pretty tired and I told him we had the rest of our lives to take walks at 5 AM 🙃).