(Mary Clare writing) So, what finally prompted Dan to e-mail me? I like to say that our getting together was a team effort. We wound up together in a class on St. Thomas Aquinas, but that wasn't quite enough. We needed an assist from Our Lady.
Our class ended in December 2005, and at some point the following February, Dan's brother (and the best man), Dave, joined Ave Maria Singles. Dan decided to mess around on Dave's

"I'm emailing because my older brother Dave just signed up with that Ave Maria Singles service, and after he looked around the site for a while I thought I'd do a little bit of searching of my own, and, mirabile dictu, I happened to come upon your profile (ok, so I guess I really should have made my own account first, but hey what can I say, I am just a poor grad student after all ;-) ). Anyway, I looked through your profile and saw a lot that I liked; I was thinking maybe we can get together sometime and talk."
So, after some deliberation on my part, I replied a few days later and we arranged to meet at 5pm Mass at Our Saviour (the Church where we're getting married) on February 26. We went for Starbucks afterwards and talked over hot chocolate. (Our conversation came easily. I told Dan on our fifth date that I felt so comfortable around him and we chatted so easily, it was like he was one of my brothers. I guess he didn't know how to take that...)

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Dear Mary Clare and Dan,
Your love story is truly beautiful.
May God bless the both of you
always.
Love,
Aunt Lucie
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