--- title: Couple Learns They Were Preschool Sweethearts 30 Years Ago description: There's even a photo of them together when they were toddlers canonical: https://time.com/4102154/couple-preschool-sweethearts-florida/ author: Lucy Wang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-11-06T00:13:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:26:40.558Z og:title: Couple Discovers They Were Preschool Sweethearts 30 Years Ago og:description: There's even a photo of them together when they were toddlers og:url: https://time.com/4102154/couple-preschool-sweethearts-florida/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Couple Discovers They Were Preschool Sweethearts 30 Years Ago twitter:description: There's even a photo of them together when they were toddlers twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Couple Discovers They Were Preschool Sweethearts 30 Years Ago by [Lucy Wang](https://time.com/author/lucy-wang/) ## Lucy Wang Nov 6, 2015 12:13 AM UTC by [Lucy Wang](https://time.com/author/lucy-wang/) ## Lucy Wang Nov 6, 2015 12:13 AM UTC Amy Giberson and Justin Pounders are happily in love after a year of dating, but the St. Petersburg, Florida couple [can’t claim love at first sight.](http://www.people.com/article/preschool-loves-reconnect-30-years-later) Almost exactly a year after their first date, Giberson and Pounders discovered that they had known each other as kids, PEOPLE reports. And that’s not all: the two, both 33, realized they were actually childhood sweethearts at Sunshine Preschool 30 years ago. “We were in the car and Justin casually mentioned that he loved my name because he had had a crush on a girl named Amy in his preschool,” Giberson told PEOPLE. “Then I joked to him, ‘Well, it’s not me, so I don’t want to hear about her.'” When the two 32-year-olds, who matched on an online dating site, investigated further, they realized they were both at Sunshine Preschool at the same time. Pounders’ mother even found a photo of the two together from decades before. “It was a quiet, bashful romance,” former teacher Diane Twar t[old PEOPLE](http://www.people.com/article/preschool-loves-reconnect-30-years-later). “They liked each other from afar, it was a young love, like a sweet crush, you know? They insisted on sitting next to each other in our school picture.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4102154/couple-preschool-sweethearts-florida/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4102154/couple-preschool-sweethearts-florida/"},"headline":"Couple Discovers They Were Preschool Sweethearts 30 Years Ago","datePublished":"2015-11-06T00:13:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:26:40.558Z","description":"There's even a photo of them together when they were toddlers","url":"https://time.com/4102154/couple-preschool-sweethearts-florida/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Florida","People"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lucy Wang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/lucy-wang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4102154/couple-preschool-sweethearts-florida/","name":"Couple Discovers They Were Preschool Sweethearts 30 Years Ago"}}]}] ```