Quarantined.
I met my husband (Dan) when I was still in high school, and he was already in college. I didn’t know him well, but his family was friends of ours. I lived in a small town Southern Illinois, while he was already pre-med up in Chicago, but whenever he was back in town my mother would always say things like “He’s such a nice young man, good future, you should find yourself a man like him” never mind the 6 year age difference, it certainly seemed like she was pushing me towards him. I was an excellent student and while I wasn’t going to med school, as fate would have it I ended up going to the same university as he was. Our families meddled, arranged for him to show me around the campus and …