I'm Ellen. I work as a zookeeper. I'm originally from Wisconsin.
My fiance is Paul. He's a licenced massage therapist. He grew up in Baltimore, then moved to Montana when he was 10.
We met at Ripon College in Ripon, Wisconsin in 2001. I had spent my freshman year in Minnesota, and realized I hated being away from home, so I transfered for my sophmore year. Paul was a freshman. We started hanging out because of two gay guys; his roomate and my best friend. The first thing I noticed about Paul was his laugh. At the time I was dating someone else, but over the course of the year we kept running into each other. It was almost the end of the year before I decided to make my move at Springfest. He was clueless until a friend bluntly told him "Dude, she's trying to get you drunk." (Don't judge, it was college). That weekend started a ten-year, drama-filled journey that saw a stint in the army (his), an internship in Arkansas (mine), and hours of cross country calls before he finally moved to SLC in 2009.
