Caramel had a fairly normal life as a regular old earth pony. He worked for the Ponyville press, and lived in a simple apartment. He had friends of all kinds: unicorns, pegasi, and of course fellow earth ponies, but there were laws against them mingling in romantic ways. He strongly agreed with this law for most of his life. Plus, he never really thought about the prospect of finding love, until love found him in the strangest way, at a vending machine no less.