Our story began in 2013 when we were interns at an engineering firm in Houston. We bumped into each other for the first time at one of those cheesy “team-building” meetings. Outspoken as usual, Allan answered most of the presenter’s questions, and Helen thought he was such a showoff. But secretly, he left an impression, and before we knew it, we were spending all our free time together, pairing up at work events, happy hours, dinners—you name it. At the end of a whirlwind summer, Allan went back to school in Kentucky.

We both thought that would be the end of it, but somehow, in one short summer, we managed to connect with each other so deeply that we couldn’t help but stay in touch, even if we didn’t know it at the time. We reconnected during a second internship the following year, and we finally committed to the long-distance thing not long after. After going broke traveling back and forth to see each other, Allan officially moved to Houston in 2016. Five years, three apartments, two more furry creatures, and a law degree later, he proposed, and she said...