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How We Met
According to Kate:
The most straightforward answer to the question, "How did you two meet?" is that we taught together. Aaron and I began our teaching careers at Framingham High School, both fresh out of undergrad, in late August of 2012. Although he taught History and I was in the English department, our classrooms were located right next to one another (shoutout to Greg Lagan and Will Cook - department heads by day, matchmakers by night?).
It was a great arrangement - not only did I have someone right next door to me who could understand the crazy highs and lows of first year teaching, but he was also funny, smart, and very attractive. After a year of long afternoon conversations, which I began to look forward to as the highlight of my day, Aaron and I started dating in September of 2013.
However. The far more fascinating answer to that question is that we met exactly three years before the night of our engagement. This was during our senior year of college, at an acappella concert jointly held by Aaron's group, the BU Bostones, and bridesmaid Kelsey Kilponen's group, the BC dynamics. A Halloween concert, I was fashionably dressed as Snow White (my fallback costume for obvious reasons), and Aaron was done up as a gory zombie. We barely interacted that night, and I doubt Aaron remembers me at all, just another member of the audience.
The following Monday, my practicum coordinator for student teaching at Framingham High School decided to have me observe a full time student teacher to get a different perspective on classroom management and pedagogy (yet another shoutout to an FHS staff member - thanks, Marc Banks). I walked into the classroom, and standing at the front of the room was the same, much less zombie-esque, acappella performer from two nights earlier.
In conclusion, it is unavoidably apparent that our relationship was made possible thanks to Halloween, Framingham High School, and fate's twisted sense of humor.
The Proposal
According to Aaron:
“London… London… London…”
During my third year teaching, my thoughts were consumed with London. I knew that I wanted to study abroad for my Master's degree, but there was a problem. I found myself involved in the best relationship I had ever experienced before. Despite having been together for just a year and a half, I decided that I could not live without Kate in my life. As are most decisions in my life, the manner in which I chose to share this with Kate was slightly spontaneous.
The date was October 31; I had spent the entire day, including teaching, as Star Wars' Obi-Wan Kenobi, and the clothing of a Jedi master transported me into the wise ways of the Force. I knew what had to be done. The night began with a slight debacle (in which Vitor and I decided to skip Kate’s friends' Halloween party, opting to go directly to ours instead. In our defense, the guy lived all the way in the South End, which would have taken more than an hour to get to. Kate took, and continues to take, considerable issue with this defense), but around 11 pm, Kate made her way to Brighton to meet me at a friend's.
When Kate called me to come find her outside, I watched anxiously as a slightly (pretty? very?) angry young woman, dressed as 8-year-old Calvin (with Hobbes in tow) walked tempestuously towards me up the hill.
“Ok," I said to myself, “this tiny, stubborn, and currently rather vexed woman is actually the woman of your dreams…. Don’t mess this up. Will this work? ...Way too late for that thought. Screw it, let’s do it.”
I gave her big kiss, and I felt some of the very-non-Calvin irritation slide out of her shoulders.
"I didn't plan for this. I don’t have a ring. I am not prepared, as always, yet the more and more I think about moving on from my current life, I know in my heart that I could never live without you." I bent down on one knee, outside on that cold October night, and tried to use any latent Jedi mind powers the costume might have given me to send positive, You're-mad-now-but-I'm-pretty-great-right? thoughts into her beautiful mind.
"Will you marry me?"
She said yes (I still give total credit to the Force), we hugged, cried a little bit (that was me), and called an Uber ride home. Our driver was the first person we told, and when she parked outside of my apartment, she took our hands into hers and prayed over us, blessing our marriage and happiness in the most wonderful and unexpected ending to the night.
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