Patricia Salazar and Aaron Toro met while trekking in Utah's Bryce Canyon National Park. Within days, they were committed to a long-distance relationship and within two months, she was diagnosed with cancer.
Patricia was also tackling the trail, alongside two friendly women she'd just met. The July sun was blazing down and the surrounding copper rocks were bathed in a warm light.
"I'm like, 'Oh my God, he looks like a Hemsworth brother.' He was tan and buff, with blond hair. And so I was like, 'Gosh, what a hunk. That'll be a good story for later.'" Patricia had never had much luck with dating apps. And meeting people in person in the Covid era felt pretty much impossible. That summer, she was feeling excited about the future and the opportunity to pursue her goals and dreams alone.
When he met Patricia, Aaron was in his late twenties. Like Patricia, Aaron was in a place in his life where he was focusing on himself, rather than dating. He was in the middle of a contract with the US Navy and had found being active-duty military didn't lend itself to meeting prospective partners.He spent his down time enjoying endurance sports.
But Aaron was smitten with Patricia from the moment she'd unexpectedly hollered at him on the trail. He was delighted when she asked for his number. When he caught up with her -- not easy, says Aaron, she's super fast -- Aaron asked if Patricia would like to walk the last half-mile together. From there, Patricia and Aaron went their separate ways. Patricia cycled back to her Airbnb, where she showered, put her feet up, and was just wondering where she could go for a drink and a bite to eat, when a text from"Trail Aaron" popped up on her phone.
"And I don't know why, but something just clicked in my brain that day and that night where it was like -- she's worth the risk. Seeing how she interacted with my family... Like I said, it was just like, 'Wow, there's something special here.'"The next day, Aaron and Patricia ran the Fairyland Loop together. From there, Patricia was planning to head to Utah's Park City to tackle more trails. She asked Aaron if he wanted to join her.
When they stopped for gas, Patricia texted her best friend,"I met the man I'm going to marry on a trail," she said."We drove for hours together, we're staying in an Airbnb together," said Patricia."Okay, well you need to send me your location," she wrote back."We've all heard this story before on whatever news network."
"It was the night in Salt Lake that we decided to really go all in," says Patricia."We had a lot of serious conversations right off the bat -- where we were financially, what our aspirations were, where we were politically, what our relationships with our family were like, and what we really wanted out of life if we were going to have another serious relationship.
Then fall came, and Patricia had an abnormal pap smear result. She didn't think too much about it. She went on the planned trip to visit Aaron in Spain. Back in the US, Patricia's doctor booked her in for a colposcopy. She kept Aaron in the loop. "He was there every day for me and, I kid you not, there were nights that I cried myself to sleep with him on the phone, on FaceTime," says Patricia.
"That was a huge, I guess, strength-builder in our relationship," says Patricia of this period."I didn't know if we could get stronger than we already were. And then that happened." "I had the family ring, and I was literally just sitting there for hours outside the hospital in the rain," he says, getting emotional at the memory."I knew as soon as she came out of hospital that I was going to ask her to marry me.""I was laying on the couch. We were in matching Christmas onesies," recalls Patricia."And on Christmas Eve, my family usually lets us open one Christmas present.
"I knew there was a finish line and Aaron would be waiting at it, so I took it day by day," she says.
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