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Oooohhhhh....I LOVE this topic! Both my fiance and I are Penn State graduates. It was at Penn State where we began to get serious. We graduated from the same high school, as well. He was active Navy while I was a full-time undergrad at Penn State. He received his A.A. from there and I received my A.A., 2 B.A.s and my M.Ed. all from there-so, we both bleed blue and white.

Anyway-this July, we were driving back from Ohio, after cleaning out my apartment. I had decided, earlier in the school year, that I just didn't want to be a lawyer but, instead I wanted to get my MSW. Fortunately, he agreed that it would be a good idea because I could move back to NY and be with him (as I attended-if I got into) at SU. I was bummed out as we drove home from Ohio because I felt as though I had let other people down-since I chose another path for myself. He said, "Hey-I know you love Penn State and we didn't get to make it back for THON...so, let's stop there on the way back to NY." I thought it was odd because it was a little out of the way (by about an hour or so). I agreed.

We parked on campus, in the garage, and walked over to the Creamery. We got ice cream and he said, "Hey-let's go check out the Lion Shrine." Once again, I thought...."This is weird. Why? Usually people go there for pictures with it for graduation, legacy pictures, etc." I said, "We've been to the shrine and we didn't bring cameras. Why?" He convinced me that it would be nice and it would cheer me up. We went to the shrine and we walked around it. I looked around and said, "Ummmmm....okay-we've seen it. We should probably go home, now." That's when I walked around the edge of it and he was on his knee. The week before he had kissed me on the "kissing bench" at Syracuse University. He told me during the proposal that he kissed me on the kissing bench because it was said that whoever you kiss on the bench is who you marry. I was in tears and so was he. It was great! It was the perfect place for us! I love how he incorporated both Penn State and Syracuse University!

We are having a fall wedding...at none other than....Penn State