OUR STORY

We first met on the steps of Wannamaker Quad on a blistering summer afternoon in 2015. We were both attending an entrepreneurship camp at Duke University, so as you can imagine, we went in with ambitions to start a company, not a relationship. However, Peter’s coral Lacoste polo caught Lydia’s attention (how could it not) and Peter was drawn to Lydia’s neon varsity track uniform (again, how could it not). We quickly became friends and over the course of a month bonded most over the eccentric sayings of our professors.

After the camp ended, we went our separate ways, but had grown accustomed to each other’s company. We kept up over text and long FaceTimes for weeks, and finally, after a conversation spurred by Lydia’s mom, we officially started dating. Over the next two years of high school, our families put in immense effort (and miles) for us to visit each other during every school break, even though we lived across the country. By the end of high school, our lives had started coming together: we attended each other’s senior proms, went on college tours over a spring break road trip with our moms, and spent weeks at each other’s homes over the summers.