It was the night before the homecoming football game, fall of 1993. Alan was a senior and I a junior. My best friend and I decided to go to the bonfire and enjoy hyping up the team with others (we were not popular at ALL so this was new for us). As the players were being introduced, when they called Alan’s name and he was very shyly walking across the stage, my heart raced and I told my best friend “I’m in love- I’m going to marry that man!” She laughed and said “Yeah…right, hahaha!” We then went to Taco Bell a little bit later. As we were sitting in the very back booth, just in front of the restrooms, she was facing the front and she goes “Hey- Alan Driver just walked in!” Now was my chance! As he walked by us heading into the bathroom, I go “Hey, aren’t you Alan Driver JR?” He gives me a side eye and very rudely goes “Yeah.” And kept walking. My best friend just stared at me and I felt so embarrassed. That was that. Fast forward to May 2010. I had heard that there was an Alan Driver running for Wayne Township Constable but I was confused because the age of the candidate didn’t match up with who I went to school with nor a parent’s age. I worked at the Wayne Township Small Claims Court so were required to work the election and after each election, everyone met at The Speedway Legion to wait for the results. I walk into The Legion- and there he sat: Alan Driver JR. As I was talking to his dad (who I found out had been a young parent, hence the age not matching up), his dad goes “Hey Junior, she graduated from Ben Davis, you might know her.” Junior replied “It was a big damn school dad” so I thought “Man, this guy really is a jerk.” A week and a half goes by and during that time, we became Facebook friends. After a week and a half, the following Saturday, we were both online at the same time so he asked me out for a beer and some wings. I say yes and over that beer and wings, I mention the “Taco Bell incident” and he immediately remembered. He explained that he felt terrible because he was with his then-girlfriend and didn’t mean to be so rude but didn’t want me to think he was available. We laughed and instantly just clicked that night. I texted my friends and told them I was with my future husband, he texted his dad and told him he was out with me. From that night forward- we were inseparable. We married 15 months later and are celebrating our 16-year anniversary this year (from our first date). Ben Davis helped us plant that seed with each other as we had to go live our lives separately: he in the Marine Corps then Army Reserve and I just floating though life, before it would be our time. The discipline we learned growing up and at BD helped shape us for our military and police careers and just helped mold who we are today. We are a blended family of 7 children (his, mine, and ours) and through the trials and tribulations and amazing times: we would do it all over again to bring us together!