Our Story: Josh's Version

Once upon a time in the mid 90s, in a little white church, a 5th grade girl and a 6th grade boy sat in sunday school together. The boy had no idea who this stunning new girl was, but he was determined to find out. He leaned back in his chair and and tried his best to pay attention to the lesson... fail. He couldn't take his eyes off of this 4 foot 6 5th grade beauty. As it turns out, however, she was PART of the sunday school lesson. She was the prophetess Deborah from Judges 4. Because she was acting out the part of Deborah, and the Sunday school teacher kept referring to her with that name, that must have been her name. That day this 6th grade boy knew that he was going to marry this 'Deborah' girl. Turns out though, her name wasn't Deborah, it was Katie, Katie Cain; and his name, well, his name was Josh, and thats me. This really is the first memory I have of Katie. We grew up together in that church, moving from elementary school into junior high where we started our relationship together. Somewhere between nervous conversations and impersonal IMs, we fell in love and on May 18th that year in 8th grade, I asked her if she would "be my girlfriend" in the parking lot of that little white church. Needless to say, she said yes, and that marked the day of my first girlfriend. Being junior highers in the late 90s, AIM was the core communicator for the next six months in our relationship. We talked about our feelings on AIM, we planned our first kiss over AIM, and we decided to call it quits because of AIM (and by decided to call it quits I mean Katie broke up with me because we never talked in person). Over the course of the next 2 and a half years, we became the best of friends. Then, after Katie and I began attending the same school, we started dating again. The official date was March 25th of my Junior year and we have been dating ever since. We stayed strong through the distance of college and have grown even stronger together as a whole. This past July we got engaged and now we are looking forward to 'dating' for the rest of our lives. I love you Katie Cain.