On April 23, 2022 at 10:22am, I sent a message to a stranger on Twitter that would ultimately end up changing my life. Most people would say something like this when talking about meeting their spouse via “sliding into their direct messages (DMs for short)” but, in my case, it was a bit weirder than that. Sliding into Tori’s DMs To set the scene, in 2020, I began my journey as a master’s student at Utah State University (USU) pursing my degree in Watershed Sciences. ...