Love Story : Love in a Snap Shot Matthew & Alisha Richard
Shanna : Where did you all meet ? Matthew : We met at church when we were young . Alisha : Yes , we grow up in the same church . Matthew : Bible Fellowship Church . Alisha ' s
grandmother was the pastor there . My mother was one of the original founders for the church . I have great respect for Alisha ' s grandmother as a pastor of the church ; it wasn ' t the norm for females to be a pastor during that time .
Shanna : Yes ! Alisha , I am so proud of her and I know
you are too ! Your grandmother is truly a trailblazer !
Alisha : Yes ! Thank you ! ( laughing )
Shanna : When did you all know that you were for each other ? Matthew : Well , she always had her eyes on me . I ' m 5 years older than she is . Alisha : ( giggling ) I played the drums at church . He kept eyeing me . Matthew : She kept looking at me from across the room . ( laughing ) Alisha : I would see him all the time when we had church . Then he went away to college and I
didn ' t see him for a while . My grandmother had a 90th birthday party and I saw him again for the first time in a while . I was about 18 then and he was a college man .
Matthew : I came home to the party and I saw her , but I didn ' t think
anything of it . I was in college , I just pledged Omega Psi Phi and I was not thinking about dating anyone . I did see her eyeing me and I went over and said hello and we started chit chatting . She couldn ' t keep her eyes off of me .
Alisha : ( laughing ) He is exaggerating now . ( laughing ) But the next
day , I did call his mother ' s house to speak to him . It was a reconnection .
Matthew : We caught up on the past few years in that conversation . I
wasn ' t looking for a relationship . I just graduated and was looking for my next step in my career . I was mapping my next move of where I was going to work and which big city I was going to move to .
Alisha : Not long after that , I moved to Charleston and started working
at a bank . I didn ' t stay long though , I moved back home . I wanted to be closer to family .
Matthew : We still kept in touch . We had several phone conversations . I then got a job in
Beaufort and moved there .
Alisha : I went back to college at the local university and we still continued our phone
conversations .
Matthew : I still was not convinced 100 % to be in a relationship with her because of the
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