Word: murrayism
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...Ethan L. Murray ’05, Thanksgiving is a holiday for which he is particularly thankful. His junior year of high school, Mr. Murray’s older sister, Amara Murray ’03, was accompanied to the family Thanksgiving dinner in Jamestown, R.I. by her Lowell House roommate, Shannon Music ’03. “I thought, ‘What a great girl,’” Mr. Murray recalls. “And then the next year, she came again for Thanksgiving and I thought, that’s the kind...
...very friendly but wasn’t romantically interested,” she says. The two kept interactions casual over e-mail and instant messenger until Mr. Murray, now 21 and a physics concentrator in Adams House, arrived at Harvard two years later...
...relationship’s starting date is a point of good-natured contention. “I think it started earlier than she does,” laughs Mr. Murray, who says it took a long time to “convince her” to date him. Ms. Music was nervous about how her roommate—Mr. Murray’s sister—would respond to their blossoming romance, and so they took things slowly. They first held hands under a Costa Rican sunset during spring break of Mr. Murray’s freshman year...
When Ms. Music’s roommate found out, they realized their concern had been misplaced—Ms. Murray approved of the match...
Marriage was a step Mr. Murray talked about from the earliest stages of the relationship. “Even back in freshman year I was talking about it, and Shannon would say ‘slow down!’” It wasn’t until Ms. Music’s senior year, however, that the plans would begin to take shape. “We were talking about what we were going to do after she graduated and so Shannon knew I was going to propose, she just didn’t know when...