Dissolution of the Tanner-Young Conglomeration

Seven years ago at Brick Oven Pizza in Provo, UT, two couples sat across from one another at a terrible Georgetown Law recruiting lunch and were wholeheartedly persuaded not to attend Georgetown Law.

Later that summer, the two husbands met for the second time at the University of Chicago Law School admitted students week and bonded over their similar nerdy interests and large brains. The two couples moved into the same apartment complex and a mutual understanding was established.

After two years of law school, both husbands found internships in Houston; their wives went looking for apartment complexes together. A year later, both couples decided (mostly independently) to move to Houston and, ultimately, live in the same apartment complex (credit goes to the Tanners--the Youngs were too lazy to find their own).

Four years have passed and the Tanners have finally gone where the Youngs cannot follow. (believe me, we thought about it) The boys have travelled to see a BYU game live and collaborated on Mothers' Day dinner every year, and have played hundreds of hours of games that no one has ever heard of. The girls have thrown four of each others' five baby showers (my bad for missing Tanner baby #2), seen the Houston Ballet Nutcracker every year, and suffered through countless Kenny-New-Game-Speeches and Boys'-End-of-Game-Rehashes. You just don't get much closer than that.

Good-bye forever, Tanners.

Just kidding--see you in the fall for the next BYU game!