I'm Brad, the USC side of the couple living in Knoxville, Tennessee. My wife Sarah is originally from Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. We first met back in February 1996. I had created a website about selling shoes (my "career" during college) and Sarah emailed me a question about the site. We started chatting back and forth over email for about 2 years. We lost communications for 3 years, but picked back up in August 2001 after Sarah drove through Knoxville while visiting friends in the U.S. We kept up the communications through email, then IM and regular mail and then finally phone. Sarah moved from Nova Scotia to Ontario in late August 2002 where we met in person for the first time. 4 months later in December, we were engaged and filed our petition, we received our visa on June 13, 2003 and she came to Knoxville on June 29, 2003. Our wedding took place in Knoxville on September 6, 2003.