Noah and Marissa first crossed paths in the summer of 2021. At the time, Noah was living in Bloomington and working in Spencer, Indiana, after landing his first post-graduate job there. With the job market still reeling from the 2020 pandemic, opportunities were limited, so Spencer—just a short drive from Bloomington—became Noah’s unexpected home base. Anyone who knows Noah understands his unwavering loyalty to Purdue, so landing a job and settling in IU territory was far from part of the plan. Meanwhile, Marissa was enjoying a brief break before her final semester of nursing school. She had moved back in with her parents and began working in the ICU at IU Health Bloomington that summer. Though neither of them envisioned living in Bloomington, it was here that they met and decided to go on their first date.

Their first date was at a cozy Mexican restaurant, Vivas Mas, in downtown Bloomington, and it didn’t take long for them to hit it off. As the saying goes, "the rest was history."

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