Jade & Jamal

Jamal & I, contrary to what he believes MET at the Richmond Mushroom Festival Carnival from a mutual friend at the time. I was 10 years old. Later that summer we seen each other at the Richmond pool and I knew he looked super familiar. This kid would not quit staring at me. I’ll never forget this stare. It was the most mesmerized look. He finally got the courage to come and talk to me and we exchanged numbers on our Nokia Cell Phones. I had just turned 11 & other than family he was like my first real phone contact lol. It’s been a few months now and all we do is talk on the phone. Our parents both worked a lot & we kept each other company. At this point we’re like best friends. Again, he finally gathered some courage to ask me to be his girlfriend and I told him I wanted to just be friends. Devastated with my answer, I guiltily told him I’d be his “girlfriend.” We “went out” with each other for two years before I broke up with him & broke the poor guys heart. But, exactly seven years later we rekindled, got back together, created not one but two beautiful tiny human beings together & agreed to spend the rest of our lives together. I texted him every single year that we weren’t together to tell him Happy Birthday. He would always reply with “Thanks” or sometimes “Thanks....” the real hateful dots. Lol. To this day we question how I remembered or why I would even text him after breaking his heart & I truly don’t know why. Or at least I didn’t know. But now I sure do ❤️ Sometimes your soul just knows. I still have to hear about how I robbed him of almost a decade that he could’ve had with me but the rest of my days belong to him.
To the most incredible, gentle, kind, big hearted, handsome man I literally cannot wait to marry you!