Every story must have a beginning, middle, and end. Elise and I met at a common friend’s house for a Christmas party. We talked and found out we had much in common from Education and Driver Training to a love of travel. There was magic in the air, or at least a guy performing magic tricks. We wrote our names on a card within a deck, and don’t you know it, he was able to make it appear like, well. Like magic. It was the Ace of Spades, and I think, this was the start of our interest and love of playing poker, the Universe couldn’t be playing with our minds, could it?