Sweetheart Stories
Inga Parkel '18 & Allie Rubinowitz '18

My first encounter with Allie happened my freshman year. I saw her sitting in Starbucks and remember staring too long and wanting so badly to talk to her, but being way too nervous. It wasn鈥檛 until our last year that we officially met because coincidentally her roommate was my good friend. We became best friends instantly鈥攚e joke that it was a 3-day friendship. From the beginning, feelings went beyond friendship, but due to other factors we couldn鈥檛 act on those. Until of course, a few weeks before graudation. Isn鈥檛 that how all great love stories start? At the most inconvenient of times. But the strongest relationships are those that beat the odds, and that鈥檚 what we鈥檙e doing: LA to Chicago. Because as the saying goes, 鈥渁int no mountain high enough, ain鈥檛 no valley low enough…鈥