Back in 1970, Sandra and George met on a blind date in NY; they were set up by her best friend who happened to also be Georges cousin. Sandra— had just graduated college and she lived in NY, but George was just visiting-.— his aunt. Apprehensions about this blind date, Sandra thought to herself, what he would look like, would he even have a personality. She was relived once she actually met him, he was handsome, tall and he thought she was the one”. But the date was filled with drama. Sandra discovered that George, in his prime, was also a party animal who loved to dance, I imagine him with a big afro and Platform shoes, gyrating under a disco ball, but I didn’t imagine Sandra’s side of the story. According to Sandra, immediately George with his outgoing personality asked her permission to dance with this..other young lady, They climbed onto the boogey floor and began to get down. Their dancing attracted a second young lady who joined the couple on the dance floor and Mr. Miller, enjoying every star lit moment, was in his element, funkadellic Style up on Coney Island. Sandra on the other hand, being the fine black queen that she was and is today, was not so enchanted, she pimped slapped Mr. Miller and stormed off from the club alone. George recovered from his show out and continued to pursue Sandra, like she said, George knew she was the one and after-all, he was just having fun and like John Legends’ lyrics in his song Number One, "you know that I love you girl, you’re my number one" and Sandra was certainly his number one, he knew it from the first time he laid eyes on her. After just three weeks of seeing each other, George proposed marriage to Sandra. Along with the proposal, he wanted to move to North Carolina.-.. The marriage proposal was no surprise to Sandra, but the move to North Carolina jarred her back. She had had a real bad experience down south, she wasn’t feeling that part of the proposal and unfortunately George left New York and instead joined the Army. The couple did not see each other for 28 long years, they did not speak again until 1998.

Sandra was visiting a girlfriend in New Jersey and inquired about old George. She had felt so guilty about the whole flash of a romance. It was sudden and quick, but somewhere deep within herself she realized like George had 28 years ago. it was love at first sight and it was real love, This particular gifend’s son was also Georges cousin, The kid picked up the phone and called his dad and his dad called George and told him that his old Gottfried was in town visiting. George didn’t know what old girt friend they were referring to, until they mentioned Sandra’s and he says. hall the memories came flooding back to him, His cousin proceeded to give George. Sandra’s telephone number and told him where she was staying. Immediately, George rang up Sandra and from that day on, they rekindled their relationship like another one of John Legend’s song, Ordinary People, taking it slow, they spoke on the phone to one another every day for an entire year. This time around, Sandra convinced George to move to Arizona to be by her side, and in 1999 they were physically reunited. In 2002, the couple finally married and became partners in life and in business: the restaurant business, Restaurant 28 the number of years the soul mates were separated. Today, Sandra says God sent her the right man 30 something years ago, but she was to green- eyed and foolish to see ii, She laments her failure to seize the moment back then, but praised God [or returning her soul mate to her after such a long me. Today, she cherishes each moment they have together over great soul food moments and invites everyone to celebrate their love with good food at their new restaurant named after their love loss and found, RESTAURANT 28.