Anna and James met at ISU in Japanese class. If you ask the couple, there will be a debate whether they met outside or inside the classroom but the class either way is what brought them together. They started out as friends though it was clear to everyone but each other that there was mutual interest.

When they were just friends, Anna had joined James and his mom for lunch just on a whim as she had time before an appointment. The three of them had a lunch at a little sushi place near campus. After she left for her appointment, her future mother-in-law would swear to James that the two would end up together. It would only be a couple of months later that she - of course- would be right and the couple had their first date at the same sushi place on December 2, 2019.

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