Jerome previously lived in the US for almost 10 years with his mother who is also Australian. We lived in the same town and had many mutual friends, but a pretty sure we never met lol. Jerome was diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma in Feb 2016 and returned to Australia for treatment abandoning his US residency. A few months later we connected online and began our friendship. We became very close and talked frequently while he was going through his cancer battle. We made our relationship official on July 21st 2018 and I bought my first ticket to Australia for October. After visiting him in October 2018 we couldn't bare to be apart so I delayed my flight home and purchased a new round trip ticket so I could leave in early November and come back on a working holiday visa after Christmas. I moved to Australia on December 28, 2018 and we have been together ever since. We flew to the US together in July 2019 so he could meet my family and ask for my parent's blessing to marry me. Now we are preparing for the K1 visa process and dreading being apart again, but excited to be back home in the US together with our friends again and getting married next year!