Sophia Gilligan and Alexandre Bennet found love “right by the cucumbers”. It was 2019, and Sophia was shopping at Trader Joe’s with her friend Gabby Bauer on the Lower East Side of New York City. The pair suddenly ran into Alexandre – who went to Indiana University with Gabby – in the produce section. “I genuinely fell in love with her at first sight at Trader Joe’s,” Alexandre remembers of his brief meeting with Sophia. “I don’t remember meeting too many people in my life with such specificity the first time.” The two would become friends as they saw each other out and about. “Alex, a native New Yorker, seemed to know everyone and had stories about every inch of the city – which impressed me as transplanted Midwesterner,” shares Sophia, who works as the senior creative marketing manager a

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