We met through a mutual friend in a book club that Ami started. Through the strange lens of the pandemic, our distance relationship with weekend private excursions and occasional quarantines seemed perfectly wonderful.

We returned to the scene of our first date, Kaaterskill Falls in the Catskills, three years later to the day. We prepared three braids of Icelandic wool and ritually tied a hand-fasted knot to symbolize the promise of our union.