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Article: We . . . Came Up With Weekends"; Monesha Madison and Jonathan Lever
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- August 9, 2009
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Monesha Madison and Jonathan Lever might not have made it. Had
the University of Maryland alumni not worked quite so hard to pull
their relationship across long distances, multiple career changes
and too many teary-eyed goodbyes to count, they could've shared the
fate of most college sweethearts: They could've become a memory. A
little less effort or a bit more youthful wavering and the two might
never have come to the leafy courtyard of the Meridian House, where
on July 25 -- six years after that first late-night flirtation --
they wed.
It started as these things often do: He was around. In the spring
of 2003, Madison returned from a Semester at Sea to find that her
friends had ...