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While Christine and Steve grew up in Arlington Heights together & attended the same schools, they didn’t truly cross paths until 2020! Like everyone else, COVID threw them a curveball and they both found themselves back home. On one fateful night and in true American fashion, they partook in Black Out Wednesday —

also known as Drinksgiving, refers to the night before Thanksgiving in the United States where college students and young adults often return to their hometowns for the holiday and meet up with friends at bars or parties

— at Thill’s apartment and ended up talking for hours. At the end of the night, they exchanged numbers and two weeks later, Christine texted Steve to go on a date…