Our Story
Seoul, Sophomore Spring
We met in the MoChamp Lounge at Brown, but things really began on a trip to Korea in sophomore spring. Both of us were sure the other didn’t feel the same, so every morning Michelle slipped out early to study, and every morning David guessed which café she’d gone to and happened to show up. Through midnight cherry blossoms, a chair we built together, and long conversations that clicked in a way neither of us had felt before, it got harder and harder to pretend we were just friends — until one of our last nights, outside a karaoke bar, Michelle fell asleep on David’s shoulder.
David didn’t sleep that night. The morning after, he asked Michelle to a tea house in Insadong; she was quiet the entire subway ride, certain he was about to say it had all been a mistake. He wasn’t. Over tea, he asked the question he’d been carrying the whole trip, and April 5th, 2021 became our day. It still is.
Since then it’s been two and a half years together in Providence and two and a half apart, Michelle at Brown Medical School and David an engineer in New York, then San Francisco. The lesson of both: love is less something you feel than something you build. On December 27th, 2025, after a day of freezing rain that cleared just long enough, David got down on one knee at Echo Lake in the White Mountains and asked one more question.
She said yes.
