Ryan Riggs, a wrestling coach at the University of Mount Union, and Kimiko Nakamura, an ER nurse, met in 2023 after she followed him on Facebook that summer.
“I’ve known one of her older brothers through the wrestling community but didn’t know he had a sister,” Ryan recounts. At a wrestling event, Ryan asked a friend if Kimiko was related to the brother he knew. The friend said yes.
“I finally got the courage to send her a Facebook message on her birthday in October of 2023,” he says. “After talking a little bit, we had our first date, and it was love at first sight.”…