Brook Fisk

He knew which ice cream flavors I liked at which dessert restaurants.

He was logical and thoughtful and funny and caring.

It was probably late the next spring that he looked at me and he said, do you consider me your boyfriend?

And I hadn't even thought about it.

And I said, well, yeah, I guess I do.

Is that okay?

A lot of our co-workers knew that we were together, but it was just kind of a thing that nobody really talked about.

Occasionally, someone would say, oh, I saw your boyfriend.

But I would say, oh, do you mean Dr. Imran?

You know?

We loved to go on trips.

What we really liked to do is go to vacation spots and find the foods that they were famous for.

And I remember him waking me up as we were kind of driving into Chicago.

It was nighttime and Chicago was lit up.

A lot of the buildings had purple lights on them for some reason.

And he woke me up and he said, look, I called Chicago and had them light the buildings up purple for you because he knew that I liked purple.

We found this really awesome restaurant that had Pakistani food, and they were open all night.

We went there at like 1 o'clock in the morning, this hole-in-the-wall restaurant, and it was the most amazing food.

Next, they went to New Orleans.

He moved out of his apartment and into a townhouse.