Want to learn more about your favorite couple (well, maybe your second favorite couple, because it's hard to beat Mr. Pibb and Red Vines - together they're crazy delicious)? Then read on... Be warned, there is a significant amount of annoying refering to ourselves in the third person - it makes the story so much more novelistic.

The Early Years

Gillian and Sean met in sixth grade, and Sean's first memory of Gillian, fittingly, involves her helping him prove himself correct. As part of a pronoun exercise, Sean had to assign a gender to certain names. He (correctly) assigned the pronoun "her" to the name "Glen". When told he was incorrect, that Glen was a boy's name, his only argument was that it sounded girly and would be a bad name for a boy. Luckily for him, Gillian was a precocious girl. She mentioned to the teacher that Glenn Close was a woman, and thus "her" was an acceptable answer. In that moment a friendship was born - Sean loves people who can help him be right.

Read on...