OUR STORY
"How They Met"
By: the Groom
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Girl meets boy.
Boy does magic.
Girl falls for boy.
Boy doesn’t catch on for a while.
Girl finally gets boy.
Nine years later—boy proposes to girl.
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"How They Met"
By: the Bride
It all began at UMass Dartmouth on October 5, 2005. Like any classic rom-com, this story starts with a meet cute. A lonely freshman, wandering the cement halls of an unfamiliar campus, finds herself searching for a place to eat lunch. A dead end after a winding gray hall led her to the UMD: Theatre Company office. The door was open. Lights were on. Voices echoed from inside. Slowly she snuck by the desks of people working and slunk herself into a chair on the far side of the room.
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After a few bites of a sandwich, the quiet office filled with more student members popping in between classes. The shy, hungry girl stayed put and watched as everyone weaved in and out of the space, hugging friends, checking emails, resting on the couch. And then—it happened.
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Out of the gray hallway—the same one she wandered through
herself—walked someone who would change her life forever.
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Tall, dark and handsome.
Tall, mostly because of the height of his hair. Dark from all the paint and junk he had presumably just worked with. And handsome. Not because of the impressively full sideburns, not for the Mighty Mouse t-shirt he wore. But those eyes. And that smile. Gary Wright’s “Dream Weaver” may have been playing in her head, or, perhaps she over romanticizes these memories.
Juggling—yes juggling—as he walked into the office, he never missed a beat; saying hello to everyone as he approached the girl in the corner. He would be the first person to sit with her. He was the first person to introduce himself. And he was her first new friend on campus.
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From that day on, it was prop making, set dressing, TV filming, magic shows, Disney and happily ever afters...
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