Craig,

Hadessa and I met at Greenville College through mutual friends and simply became acquaintances. It was really just the casual “Hi, how are you?” sort of a thing as we would pass each other on campus until we began to hang out with the same circle of friends our sophomore year. We began to develop a closer friendship with one another and talk about the more significant things in our lives. I was watching her one night while a bunch of us were hanging out a friend’s house and thought to myself, “She is really cool, I’d like to spend more time with her”. I began to pursue.

Dessa,

I asked him to come to my house for Christmas junior year since he was a poor missionary kid and had no where to go. I didn’t know that the whole last semester he had been observing me, watching to see what type of girl I really was. We had a great time with my family, as he continued to watch me and become even more attracted to who I was. I found out that the last day we were at my house, he took my parents to breakfast and told them his intentions to start dating me. He asked them for their thoughts and wisdom on the situation. We came back from Christmas and he asked me to go out with him before life got crazy with school.

Craig,

We went out for dinner and a movie. I had been preparing a little “I like you, let’s start dating” speech for a while and decided that night was a good time. She considered the idea over the weekend and we began our relationship together over drinks at a pizza place the following Tuesday, January 10th.