While chatting on the phone with one of my beloved Sorority sisters, Lotty Jean, one night, she randomly shared with me that there was a Facebook Group for tall people. I was in shock that such a group even existed, but I was curious…A long, legged beauty herself, Lotty went on to assure me that the group was NOT a dating website – she knew how I felt about those – but that it was just a group for tall folks to get together, share our challenges, and even meet up when possible. I thought that was a cool concept, so I told her that I would check it out. She immediately warned me that the general membership was a younger crowd, so she wasn’t sure if I would like the group. Lotty was definitely speaking the truth when she said that the group’s membership was a young crowd! After my initial introduction and welcome by the members, I was almost instantly turned off by the activities of the group’s participants and realized pretty quickly that I probably would not be frequenting this group page often…and I did not! I would randomly hop on the group from time to time to see what was going on…a few meet ups here and there, which I participated in once, meeting up with a group of fellow tall ladies for brunch down in Miami, but other than a few random posts of jokes & comments, I was pretty much over the group.

One day, the group administrator told us to post our best “selfie”. I didn’t have any, so I just snapped a quick one and posted it. Within seconds, I received a response from a guy (Amili) informing me that “he liked my dimples”. I replied, “thank you” and it went from there. I was able to see a few pictures of him and some guys who I later found out were his brothers – obviously taken when they were groomsmen in a wedding. However, honestly, I was more taken in by his adorable son who was included in his profile picture. I was still not quite convinced by Amili in the picture or that I wanted to proceed with any extensive dialogue with this man, but after a few weeks of texts turned into phone calls, and I heard his amazing voice, I was locked in! We had SO MUCH in common and I thought that he was just an absolutely BRILLIANT man!!! Our conversations were effortless, and our connection was undeniable!

We were able to schedule a first date – that dinner and a movie that I posted about weeks before – which turned out to be the BEST first date I think either one of us had ever had!!! We couldn’t stop talking, sharing, and getting to know one another, and seemingly did NOT want the night to end! From the movie we drove to the beach and happened upon a beachside bar with a live reggae band…How perfect is that??? What are the odds? The night continued with Amili giving me my first pool playing lesson…the struggle is still real five years later! As Amili stated in his section of our story, it was definitely a whirlwind from that point on!

She and I laugh about this all the time, but I often remind Lotty and tell folks that if it were not for her, I would have never known about that Facebook Group and doubt very seriously if Amili and I would have ever met! I truly believe that I met my soulmate in that group – in the most random of ways – and I absolutely cannot imagine my life without him. We have built an amazing life together over the years and I am looking forward to starting this next phase so that we can continue our journey and continue building our amazing life!