Our Story
How we got here
Two people who kept showing up for each other, long before either of them called it anything.
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2021 · How we met
The unremarkable beginning
It started the unremarkable way good things usually do. Achilles and Kate met through the congregation in Pangasinan, and for a while that was all it was: familiar faces, easy conversation, nothing either of them thought twice about.
Kate remembers that Achilles was always early and always talking. Achilles remembers that Kate laughed at things she was too polite to explain. Neither of them remembers the exact day, which feels about right.
2023 · Becoming us
Friendship first, and for a long while
Longer than most people would guess. Two years of ordinary places (long drives, shared meals, service together, other people’s celebrations), and somewhere in there the ordinary stopped feeling ordinary.
Achilles knew before he said anything. Kate knew too, and waited for him to catch up. When they finally talked about it, the conversation was less a beginning than an admission.
November 2025 · The proposal
He forgot half of what he meant to say
Late afternoon, no crowd, no production. Achilles had thought about it for months and still forgot half of what he meant to say. Kate said yes before he finished. He was shaking more than she was.
They called both families the same evening, and neither of them slept much.
