"Usually when we tell the story of how we met, it lasts for about 20 minutes and people get really confused. Our love story is not out of a fairy tale. He is from a tiny town in Northwestern Ontario and she is from a city in the south. Here goes nothing..."
Sam's sister, Steph, went to Ottawa University. As a little sister, she visited Ottawa innumerable times to experience all the great university fun her big sister seemed to be having. Steph was rooming with the "Dryden crew." Nobody had any idea where this "Dryden" was, but here these two city girls were, hanging out with the northerners. A couple years went by and Sam continued to visit. Steph moved through university, always sticking close with these Dryden folk, and Adam Tocholke in particular.
Little did Sam know, across the city, Scott was attending his final years at Carlton University. She had always heard of "Adam's brother" but never thought much of it because he was taken at the time. Eventually Sam and Scott's paths crossed for the first time.
No sparks. No fireworks. End of story.
Just kidding. That is far from the end of this complicated tale.
A little while later, Steph began seeing Mark Nerino {drumroll please: another Dryden-er!}. So you could say it was fate when, visiting Ottawa one week in the summer, Steph dragged Sam to Mark's apartment for just about every single visit because Mark's roommate was none other than the infamous "Adam's brother" AKA Scott Tocholke. Sam and Scott were forced to hang out with each other. Initially less than pleased with this awkward situation, it came as a strange shock when Sam found herself unable to stop laughing everytime she and Scott were "forced" to hang out.
One night that week, the Dryden gang, with the Markham sisters in tow, went to celebrate a friend's birthday at the Ottawa Heart & Crown. It was that evening that Sam and Scott shared a platter of deep fried pickles {an event which they now refer to as their "first date"}. The rest is kind of history. He persued her throughout the summer and following months despite the distance--he in Ottawa and she in North Bay for school. It didn't take long for Scott to win her heart.
The next two and a half years were spent talking on the phone, visiting as often as one could stand the delays of Greyhound bus travel, and having the time of their lives.
It didn't take long for him to find a fantastic job as the Director of Business Development and her, a grade one teacher..."where?" you ask? Dryden.
Dryden. The place she had never heard of. The place he took her home to meet his family. The place she {surprisingly} fell in love with. The place he proposed. And the place they will live happily ever after.
{...until they move to Hawaii!}
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