DH and I met at the Royal Military College of Canada in the new year of 2012. He was a strapping young cadet, and I was a hot young grad student taking the War Studies program by storm. Because there were not many grad students my age, I had asked a professor I was doing research work for, if I could sit in on a Monday morning U.S. foreign policy course he taught – my favorite topic in school – and in which DH was a student. When we first laid eyes on each other he gave me a very greasy once over before plopping down in a seat in front of me. He proceeded to ignore me for the next month and in return I did not pay him too much attention either. I mean, who was this cadet to completely ignore me?! How rude! Instead I talked up everyone around him and that was that.

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