I just got engaged to an amazing woman, I'll call her L, that I met in High School 20+ years ago (Somewhere I have embarrassing pictures of L with @mk and @steve brooding in a corner that I won't be posting). I had a huge crush on her older sister and I spent so much time at her house I was of adopted by her mom, sort of like a stray dog. We became good friends, we were like family. After I graduated she moved away, I traveled, went to college and got married. My wife and I moved cross country and had a set of twins just shy of our 1st anniversary. We didn't have a lot of friends in this new town but L and her sister were going to college about 40 miles away. We started hanging out with them on a regular basis and renewed the friendship. L would drive up and hang out with my wife and kids. We all became close for the 2 years we lived there before moving back home. I lost touch with L for the next 14 years. By that point I had 3 more kids and was blindsided by a divorce. After my ex-wife moved out, she said she wanted me to be with a woman who could be make me happy, somebody like L. A year later I connected with L via social media and here we are almost a year later planning a wedding.