Kate and Boomer met for the first time in a laundry room of all places.

They chatted about life on top of the washers, and both left with the feeling that something was different. After that night, the universe kept bringing them together in unexpected places — throughout the chance encounters, the most exciting type of friendship started to grow: one with potential.

But Kate and Boomer didn’t really blossom until they were both living in New York City (come on now, Hoboken is close enough). Their paths finally aligned at a crowded bar during the final hours of New York’s most infamous bar crawl, Santa Con. They again talked for hours as their friends mingled, and that’s about the time that Kate and Boomer realized they should probably start meeting up on purpose. If you’re reading this, well then, you pretty much know the rest.