Once upon a time, a young woman of a particular contextual situation in the world was perusing an online dating site when she perchance happened on an “intriguing” profile.

Messages were sent, messages returned, an “intrigue off” was established and rapport began to develop over orange linoleum and Prince’s perspective on porcelain potties - sometimes through rap battles, at other times via haiku battles, and even an occasional meme showdown that yes, Scarlett usually won, until …

The fateful “mustache” message took it up a notch and the rest is history, um, well, hirstory.

Oh, yeah, rituals will also play a big part in this here story as well, so if you aren’t the tangibalizing the intangible type, you may want to look away too.

Life became full of rituals and sunsets and trips and rituals and concerts and rituals and new friends and rituals and piano playing hamsters named Liberace and rituals and excursions and rituals and …

An addition to the trio came along in the form of Coco Carolina Symone Bradison when Scarlett drove to South Carolina to adopt our sweet baby girl on August 15, 2025!

Right quick like after that Scarlett and Trey and Gizmo and Coco officially became Treylett Bradison at ThePorch™ when Scarlett moved in with Trey in the little cottage down by the river! And the decorating and new family traditions bloomed a’ plenty!

For one of Trey and Scarlett’s joyful weekend excursions they went to Atlanta to see Nelly (again, if you know you know), make beautiful Turkish Lamps, and just so happen to swing by D. Gellar and Sons to gander at some rings. Scarlett found one and it helped her get over her disappointment of learning that the store where she first found the Alexandrite ring of her dreams was a fraud. And it was WAY too early in the relationship to be buyin’ rings… right? Well some dreams would just have to remain dreams, for now.

However, moving in together, combining households, ring dreaming, developing a “‘ship name”, expanding the family with the adoption of Coco, and all the many trips and excursions led to talk of the future.