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Over the next few days Tucker stayed with me in the hospital by my side as they instructed us on what Type 1 diabetes is. I didn’t quite get it, I mean how could I have diabetes?! I go to the gym, run, eat healthy, there must be some mistake. No mistake they told me, my immune system had attacked my pancreas and I must take insulin every single day for the rest of my life or I’ll die. I remember telling Tucker that we had only been dating for only 6 months or so and he didn’t sign up for this. I mean if he stayed with me he’d have to deal with all of my medical issues. The ridiculous medical costs of insulin and medical supplies. The list goes on. He could have easily just said that it’s too much for him and moved on but he didn’t. He was willing to go through this with me. He was willing to make so many sacrifices for me and that’s when I absolutely knew that he was the one that I’ll be spending the rest of my life with. One year after that Tucker proposed and I know that we still have so much more ahead of us. Getting married is one of the first steps in our journey together. I’m so excited for what’s yet to come!

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I met Timmy for the first time in person for our first date on March 16th, 2017 after connecting online. At the time I was living in Worthington and Timmy was living in Rochester and working in Owatonna; so we decided to meet roughly halfway which happened to be Mankato. We decided to meet for dinner at Olives. I recall being smitten with him before we even met; so I brought him a rose :) Turns out he was thinking along the same lines because he brought me a “digital rose” with a device that made a picture of a rose pop up on my phone. The dinner turned into great conversation and the great conversation led us to ice cream at Mom and Pop’s ice cream place and then we ended the night by having coffee at a bar. The company was good at the bar but I’m pretty sure the coffee was 15 hours old because we definitely saw him stick our cups in the microwave.

After that fateful first date we stayed in close contact though we were many miles apart. Timmy eventually met my friends and family; they couldn’t help but to love him of course! We eventually started seeing each other every weekend and would alternate meeting in Worthington or Rochester. Things unfolded from there in a very natural and easy way; leading up to now. Every day that I have been with Timmy has been wonderful! Since our first date we have gone on my adventures including camping with my family at Lake Shetek in SW MN, visiting Itasca State Park, visiting Chicago and moving to Chaska MN together!

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Many people like to ask me when I knew that he was “the one,” so I’ll explain that here. I recall Timmy saying from very early “I’m going to marry you someday!” I would always laugh him off and say something about how we have plenty of time to figure that out. The event that helped me realize that Timmy was to be my life partner was a near death experience. We planned a long camping weekend with my family for MEA in October of 2017; Timmy even took off work for the vacation. Timmy was feeling sick, but stuck it out and came to the camper at Lake Shetek. Eventually we decided to go back to Worthington because he wasn’t getting better. THEN, we ended up at the ER and found out that he had Type 1 Diabetes and was quite close to falling into a coma. Talk about some unexpected news! There wasn’t a second of doubt for me, I stayed with him in the hospital and learned with him about this new condition. It wasn’t until a number of months later that I looked back on those days and realized that was when I knew that I would never leave his side. That is why I decided to propose to him at the campground almost exactly 1 year from that fateful day; I wanted that to symbolize a day of positive change!

I am so excited to start the next chapter of my life with Timmy by my side. We are excited to see the world and, most importantly, start a family together!