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24 The College of New Jersey Magazine Like ships passing in the night, some couples occupy the same spaces before they ever meet ALUMNI FROM ACROSS DECADES share memories of first dates, proposals at beloved campus landmarks, and the moments they realized the college had given them something much more than a diploma: a lasting love that didn't require a single credit hour. Long after the papers were written and the caps were tossed, the "place where it all began" continues as the thread that stitched these lives together. I didn't meet my husband, Raj Vansia '12, until senior year. But once we met, we realized that we had unknowingly crossed paths many times before that. I lived on Wolfe 1, and he lived on Wolfe 2 in the room directly above me. Junior year, we both lived in Townhouses East, just two townhouses apart. There was even one instance that we were able to trace back to being in the same room together. We finally met through a mutual friend. — DANIELLE VANSIA '12 My husband, Arno Miller '11, and I met in the summer of 2010. We realized we had a lot of mutual friends. Then we kept bumping into each other at The Rat for concerts. I was in CUB, and he was a sound tech, so we have a lot of special memories there. We joke that if The Rat were still around, it is where we would have gotten married. — ALISON MILLER '12 CHELSEA LYNNE: We danced around each other for two years, became best friends, then started dating.

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