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how we met // KATIE HASTINGS & PETER LEWIS all great relationships had to start somewhere.
Seven years ago, Katie Hastings was known as the college girl who dated a sophomore in high school.
Hastings, 26-year-old Dallas junior, started dating an acquaintance of Peter Lewis, 23-year-old Dallas senior, when she was a student at the University of North Texas and he went to a high school in Dallas.
But when her boyfriend broke up with her, Hastings confided in Lewis, who had also been recently tossed aside by his girlfriend.
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"Everyone was sick of hearing us complain, so they told us to go bitch to each other," Hastings says. The bitching and whining resulted in friendship and later led to something more.
In 2005, Hastings started to have dreams about kissing Lewis. She didn't understand them at the time, but then everything started to make sense when Peter randomly kissed her at a friend's house.
The rest is history. In 2006 they moved to Lawrence and have been together ever since. They say that they've never had any serious arguments, the
Man of her dreams: Katie Hastings once dreamed of kissing Peter Lewis, now the two are engaged.
only problem they have is accidentally wearing the same shirts on the same day.
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This summer, Lewis asked Hastings to marry him. The day he bought the ring, he took a picture of it and uploaded the picture to the background of Hastings' computer.
"When I first saw it, it took me a second to figure out what was going on. Then I turned around, and I saw Peter standing there with the ring in his hand," Hastings says.
With their broken hearts mended, Peter and Katie will tie the knot June 27, 2010.
// HAILEY OSTERHAUS
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major: Creative writing interested in: Women
"My ideal date would be to get in a hot air balloon, cut all the sand bags, and just go!" says Peter Longofono, Danbury, Conn., senior.
But if that plan doesn't quite fit the itinerary, he might just try to impress a girl with exotic and organic foods. If the meal he cooks turns out to be a crispy burnt mess,
he'd just joke about it and make you laugh away his embarrassment.
When he's not cracking jokes, Longofono can be seen on the stage playing funk music on his bass guitar with his band Oh O.K. But rather than having a girl screaming for him in the front row with starry eyes, he'd want to see his girl playing music on her own stage instead.
"I think Peter's extreme intelligence and humor matches his beautiful red hair," jokes Shane Lennon, Branson, Mo., senior. Lennon says that girls have dated Longofono in the past because of his artistic abilities to play music and write poetry.
After his last year at the University he plans to apply to New York University to study poetry. He says the poetry department at this prestigious school takes 15 to 20 students every year. His alternate plan is to pursue his music.
From the looks of it, Peter has a plan for the future that will take him far, hot air balloon or not.
// HAILEY OSTERHAUS
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