‘He Told Me He Loved Me and I Said it Back…We Confessed Our Love to Each Other’

BY JE’DON HOLLOWAY-TALLEY | Special to the Birmingham Times KATRINA AND DAVID DADA Live: Hueytown Married: Sept. 5, 2016 Met: September 2015 at their mutual friend Adeola Odutola’s housewarming in Gardendale. The men are frat brothers, and Katrina and Adeola were engineers at Alabama Power. “I thought I knew all of Adeola’s friends, but got to the party and there were like 30-40 people there and I noticed Katrina immediately,” David recalled. “And about an hour later Adeola asked me to change a song and I went to his phone to do it and Katrina asked me, ‘What are you about to change the song to?’, and now this beautiful woman was talking to me so we made small talk. Katrina and David began seeing one another in Adeola’s home at future gatherings. Soon after, Adeola hosted meetups for young professionals “and we would fellowship afterward, and we got to know each other at those gatherings…,” Katrina said. By Adeola’s 2015 New Year’s Eve party, the attraction between David and Katrina had intensified. Eventually, Katrina slid into David’s DM’s on Facebook. “I was already out having dinner with my line sister and we agreed to meet up at an eatery...