“We first met in December ‘09 in Miami. I was visiting my best friend, Leah, in grad school, and he was one of her classmates who also lived on her floor. He had his lost luggage dropped off at Leah’s while he was in class. He soon came over and opened up the suitcase to discover that his grandma’s shrimp biryani had spoiled after sitting out in the Miami heat for 48 hours. Needless to say, it instantly stunk up the entire apartment! He then invited us to his apartment, and – not wanting to taint both apartments – promptly took off without the suitcase! I couldn’t really hold it against him, and we hung out over the next couple of days before we parted ways. We rekindled our chemistry when he moved to New York two years later, eventually started dating, and haven’t looked back since!”