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Her friend, Heather, loves playing matchmaker and had trying for months to set them up. Heather & her husband Greg had a housewarming party on Memorial Day weekend in 2009 and Heather seized the opportunity to introduce Mollie & Jake. There was no forewarning. Heather simply introduced them and then disappeared. “We were left here […]

A door connected the two rooms on the third floor of the hotel. The ladies were in one room; the guys in the other. The high energy of the day transmitted through everyone, including some stress due to last minute shopping runs (hair gel for starters, then the video camera that didn’t have a memory […]

They weren’t strangers when they saw each other one afternoon after a Hawkeye football game. They knew each other from high school, but had never hung out. But when they saw each other after the game, now in their college years, they started talking and they just never stopped. He says he was drawn to […]