‘We Were Gazing Up at the Trees and That’s Where We Shared Our First Kiss’

SONYA AND CHRIS THIGPEN BY JE’DON HOLLOWAY-TALLEY | Special to the Birmingham Times Live: Moody Married: June 28, 1997 Met: September 1995 at AmSouth Bank, in Birmingham. They were both Consumer Loans Clerks. Chris started working there while Sonya was on vacation and when she returned he noticed a new face and asked around about her. “…we kinda met in the [file cabinet area], we would cross paths in that area a lot,’ said Sonya. “We’re both kind of quiet so in the beginning it was just us speaking to one another and then got to the point of having conversations and I eventually asked her to lunch. She declined, but I didn’t think anything of it,” Chris said. “I just knew I’d have to be more direct the next time.” “The first time he asked me out I didn’t even realize he was asking me out,” Sonya laughed. “He asked me to go have lunch and I had brought my lunch that day so I declined, and my coworkers started beating me up about it and told me he was asking me out… [Our] coworkers were trying to play cupid, and after a while they set up a group...