Love is in the air. This Valentine's Day, One Degree of Separation brings you three podcasts revolving around how love and companionship affects the creative process and journey. With three different couples, who had gotten together under vastly different circumstances, we discuss how they've grown together as individuals and creatively, the intersection between love and creativity, hurdles in today's modern day romance, and love in all its wonder. From this Valentine's Day and beyond, we hope you accept the love that's given to you because the world could always use a little more love. In this episode, I speak to Lu and Paul who have been together for 10 years, having seen it all in their extensive journey together. You've heard of high school sweethearts, but what about middle school sweethearts?