We first met in @ 1999 through mutual friends. We ran into each other at social gatherings every couple of months for a few years until these same mutual friends got married in Las Vegas in 2003. After the wedding, Dave emailed Lauren and we had our first date soon after. We moved in together the following September and purchased an apartment together the next October. Dave proposed in February in our garden, with the other man in Lauren's life adding a meow for emphasis, Copernicus the cat. Here is a photo from when we first started dating.
(We mourned the loss of Copernicus in October. We are now joined by Amelia, named for Amelia Earhart, but really more of an Amelia Bedelia. She knows three words, "breakfast," "dinner," and "treat." Her favorite activities are eating, having her head rubbed, looking out the window for tom cats and stubbornly refusing to acknowledge an understanding of the word "No.")Dave and Lauren live together in their Prospect Heights apartment. Dave negotiates contracts for a hedge fund and Lauren is a doctoral candidate in English and American Literature at Stony Brook University.
