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Granada Hills High is important to Scheper for a non-football reason as well. It was there that he met Gigi Railla, his wife of three months. "I was the star football player and she was the star cheerleader," Scheper laughs. Theirs, however, is not the typical high school-sweetheart romance...
...were just really good friends in high school," Gigi says. "The football players and the cheerleaders went to parties together and to the beach together, all in a big group." Adds Paul: We were in a couple of classes together, so I'd go over to Gigi's house to study sometimes...
After Scheper left Northridge, Ca., for Harvard, the two stayed in touch. "We'd write letter," Gigi says. "We got to know each other through writing and phone calls." When Paul returned to California for Christmas vacation, the pair started going out, and they've been together ever since. Until they got married August 22, however, it was mostly romance by long distance. In fact, when Paul asked Gigi to marry him on February 12, 1981, it was, believe it or not, over the phone. Actually the two had discussed marriage previously, but Paul wanted to check...
Married life has forced Scheper to put himself on a rigid schedule since he has to be athlete, student, husband and make some money all at the same time. While Gigi, a licensed nurse, works full time at Cambridge Eye Associates, he works 15 hours a week before classes with Chet Stone, the Harvard equipment manager. In between classes he tries to sneak into the library for some studying ("So Gigi and I can be home together at night"), make time to meet his wife for lunch, go to football practice and come home to Peabody Terrace to have dinner...
...gift was the ability to create characters so vital that they seemed to leap from the page: the ebullient Gigi, skipping through the Tuileries; the elegant and doomed Chéri, in love with a woman twice his age; and Lea, archetype of the older woman, wise, but not yet wizened by age and experience. But Colette's greatest invention was Colette, the country girl who conquered Paris and captured life itself...