timeline of events JANUARY 04, 1980 | Kirsten “Kaci” Davidoff is born. SEPTEMBER 1985 | Begins spending more time with her next door neighbor rscott when her mother returns to college. SEPTEMBER 1987 | Is paired up with open as her pen pal. JANUARY - MAY 1997 | Spends the second semester of her junior year as a foreign exchange student in Paris. JUNE 1998 | Meets open face to face after ten years of exchanging letters. JULY 1998 - AUGUST 1999 | Lives in Paris as she pursues her love of photography ; meets and has love affair with Deacon, but it ends when she has an abortion. SEPTEMBER 1999 | Returns to Virginia when her mother is diagnosed with breast cancer. JANUARY 2000 | Moves to Washington D.C. FEBRUARY 2000 - AUGUST 2001 | Dates Wayne Hunt and actually believes she may be capable of a functional relationship, but his knee injury and her mother’s illness eventually is too much for the couple to bear. 2002 | Shotgun wedding to jlombardi in Atlantic City; marriage is annulled seven days later. 2003 - 2004 | Meets open when she locks her keys in her car; call for a coffee date turns into a year and a half relationship. JANUARY 2005 - MAY 2006 | What begins as a New Year’s kiss evolves into a casual fling and eventually a relationship with open; it ultimately ends when they both realize the passion for one another has disappeared. SEPTEMBER 2008 | Awkwardly reveals the family secret to her half-sister abbiem in a confrontation on the Monroe residence front lawn ; meets her half-brother charmon when he attempts to mediate the situation. DECEMBER 2008 | Has a rendezvous with rscott, both knowing that it is one time thing before he leaves to conduct his research at Harvard University. JANUARY - JULY 2009 | Is stunned when Deacon resurfaces in her life, but cannot deny her attraction to him; moves in with him despite wanting to take things slow, which ultimately results in a broken engagement when she realizes they are moving too fast. AUGUST 2009 | Finds solace with jlombardi again when she temporarily moves in with him; as in the past, he provides a certain comfort that no one else can give her. MARCH 20, 2010 | First photography exhibit opens to the public at the Kathryn Ewing Gallery.