Word: alfono
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Veronica R. Heller ’05 met Mark R. Alfono in the summer of 2000, while both studied medieval history at the New Jersey Scholars Program, a camp based in Lawrenceville...
...hotbed for romance,” Ms. Heller says dryly. (Ms. Heller plans to change her name to Ms. Alfono eventually...
...months later—on Oct. 10—they became engaged to be married. While watching television, Ms. Heller turned to reach for the remote. When she turned back, Mr. Alfono presented her with a ring he had found as a child and kept because it reminded him of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings books...
...Alfono nearly gave up his acceptance at Princeton to go to Tufts in order to be close to her. But the couple braved the long-distance relationship. “I figured out that over four years I spent $4,000 and 22 days on buses back and forth to New Jersey,” she says...
Both will attend graduate programs in Princeton next year; Ms. Heller for a doctorate in English and Mr. Alfono for a master’s in philosophy. Looking starry-eyed, she says that kismet happens. “You’ll know,” she says. “From the day I got together with Mark, I knew...