Sophia Herring and Paul Henkel met at a mutual friend’s table at the New York City bar Paul’s Casablanca in 2018. Nothing happened that night: given both were juniors in college at different universities, the 21-year-olds weren’t looking for anything serious. But love often comes just when you aren’t looking. “From the second we met, we felt like old friends,“ says Sophia. “I think we both knew that at the right time, something more would come of it.”

And something did. Later that summer, Paul invited Sophia out to his family’s hotel, Dunton Hot Springs, in Colorado. “He told me it was a casual friends’ trip, and failed to mention that all of his friends would be leaving the day I got there. When I arrived, it was just him and his entire family in the middle of absolutely nowhere,” she re

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