Every couple has a sweet story of how they met, and I suppose our story is no different. How we found each other from opposite sides of the globe is beyond me, but it happened something like this:

Christophe was no stranger to the US.  He had just finished his military service in the SIllicon Valley, and after returning to France for a brief stay, came back to take advantage of a job offer in San Diego. Unfortunately, that job proved to be a scam.  Not wanting to return to France right away, he decided to look for work within a large, stable corporation somewhere in Los Angeles.

As luck would have it, he ended up interviewing for a job at a company I had been working for for many years.  During the interview, he noticed a map of France on someon's office wall.  He decided that if he got the job, he would go back to that office and meet whomever the map belonged to.  Well, he got the job, went back to that office and discovered that the map was mine!  I was planning my first trip to France that summer and had the map on my wall for reference. When he asked if I were going there, I said, "Yes, have you ever been?"   Smiling broadly he said, "Oui! I am FROM there!"  We were instant friends. 
(Oh, how fortunate I feel that I hadn't planned on Hawaii that year, instead!   ;-)