We were both on staff the summer of 1986. Steve worked as a counselor in the Tikvah program and Shira was a counselor for a Bogrim girls’ cabin. Although we both confided in someone else that we were interested in one another at the beginning of the summer, we didn’t get together until the end. We dated long distance (Kansas City to New York) for two long years and got married a month after Shira graduated from college.