The summer was at its hottest when fate would bind the lives of Sara and Joe. Like a thread through the eye of a needle they were guided to the E-Harmony website where the two of them would first glance at each other across the web and think to themselves, “this person seems interesting.”

Sara, young at heart, old at soul, who would never have thought to join an on online dating site was persuaded by her cousin, Ali, to get out there and start dating. Her cousin pushed her through the long process of making an account and adding a picture of herself to the dating site, and finally Sara was ready to go, ready to meet someone.

Joe, a hopeless romantic, was already on the site waiting for his chance to meet someone as well. He had all but given up hope on the dating site, even thinking to himself, “the right person for me isn’t on here, maybe there is no right person.”

It was then they both saw each other’s profiles online and thought that initial thought. Neither of them could wait to talk to each other. They looked good on paper, maybe too good. The excitement and interest had them checking their e-mails frequently waiting to see if the other person had responded to the planned enquiries of the site. Each response was more interesting than the last. Doubt would ebb and flow, is this person actually this way, or is this all too good to be true?

Then finally they made it past the first 5 planned steps of initiating contact through E-harmony. The e-mails that followed quickly turned into a phone date. Despite warnings to only spend 30 minutes with each other on the phone at a time the two would often be up late into the night laughing, crying, and sharing with each other. Warmed through the phone by each other’s voices, the restlessness to meet one another in person grew, to put a face to the person that was making them so happy became an eager moment.

Then, August 23rd 2008 Sara and Joe went on their first date together, there was nervousness, and there was comfort, however, there was something bigger going on, Sara and Joe had begun to weave a new life together that day. A beginning was made, simple and singular; a small lunch together, a date at the zoo, a hot day, and then the times they didn’t want it to end, and then the final phone call to say good night – good night to a perfect day. They stitched together the first sequence of many perfect moments in the patchwork that would signify their love for each other.