Not Just an
Ordinary Love Story 

It was a Friday night in Boston, February 2001. I was 17, a high school senior visiting Harvard for the weekend with my friend Kelley. That night, I was invited to the Harvard freshman formal—as the date of Will, a freshman football player and teammate of Dante, my high school friend and Kelley's now-husband.

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That was the night I met Will. He was 19—confident, magnetic, and effortlessly charming. I first saw him standing in the doorway of the freshman quad, his face still streaked with crimson and white paint from a hockey game earlier that evening.

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What seemed like a passing moment became the start of something that would echo across the next 25 years. Life pulled us in and out of each other's lives—like waves and tides—but somehow, we always found our way back to each other.

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And now, after all this time, we're ready to begin the next chapter—together.

 

With love,
Will & Tara