Sam spoke to Julia first. He said, “so you went to Princeton?” And so they became friends.

Sam and Julia worked together at a place called United Talent Agency. They started on the same day, wearing the same outfit. Their job, at the bottom of the corporate ladder, entailed delivering mail throughout a building modeled on the architecture of a frat basement. Everyone else had been in a frat, except them. So they became close friends.

As a friend, Julia invited Sam to a screening of his favorite movie, Boogie Nights. They had been to other movies together, dinners together, parties together, but always just as friends. They were the kind of friends who told their other friends about each other, and their other friends would look at them, knowing what was soon about to happen, that Julia and Sam did not yet know themselves.

So they became more than friends. Julia attended Charlie’s graduation party, where she met everyone, all at once. Sam met Ginger at Jon and Vinny’s. Julia invited Sam to the Lake, where he too met everyone, all at once. Nini said, “he’s a keeper,” and Julia agreed.

Soon, they were more than dating. They were Julia and Sam, Sam and Julia, and they traveled the world together, spent too much money on dinner together, moved in together, adopted a dog together, really it was strange when they did things alone. They loved each other, very much.

So Sam asked Julia to marry him, and she said yes.

Now, they live on opposite sides of the world. They no longer work at the same company, although they will be forever grateful to the great agency gods for placing them in the same indoctrination group on March 13th, 2017. Julia and Sam moved on to pursue their dreams: producing and writing. They talk about doing them both, together, someday, a dream they know they will realize.