Yep, we went to the same small school in Ohio. I’m from OH, but he’s from NY. Actually my first interaction w/ him was when I was a FY and he was a Senior. Very very early in the school year I was walking to the student center & he and his frat bros were hanging around outside “surveying” all the new young students. He doesn’t remember this, but says he’s thankfully evolved.
Flash forward 3 years I’m a Junior working at the campus pub & he’s a fresh new Lt, on campus for an annual frat event. We met when I went up to his frat’s block housing to pre-game w/ some friends before I had to go to work. He didn’t want me to leave but I said I could come back at 2am if he wanted. He said yes (though he says now that he never thought I’d actually show up). We started a long distance relationship with lots of phone calls & occasional visits.
Spring of my Junior year he was on leave for a month, and we were psuedo living together at one of his friend’s house. At one point I had to go to class & he had a meeting w/ some military personnel, I don’t remember. All I remember is this was well before cell phones were common & he was very late getting back. No one had heard from him & I was getting nervous. I was heading over to the frat housing to see if he’d shown up when all of a sudden I see him walking up the gorgeous leafy Boulevard in his Deltas uniform… looking just… wow. I remember actually saying out loud to myself … “Oh, I’m in trouble.” Knowing right then I had fallen hard for this guy!
The next fall he proposed in front of the huge Gothic building on campus & we got married that summer. Twenty years, two kids, and god knows how many moves later our eldest almost went to our Alma Mater.